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Antisera were prepared against one strain each of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, D. vulgaris and D. salexigens. The antisera were tested for cross reactivity against 36 heterologous Desulfovibrio strains by both agglutination titration and by double immunodiffusion precipitin plates.
Generally no cross-reaction was demonstrated by agglutination even between heterologous strains of the same species, suggesting that the surface antigens of Desulfovibrio are highly specific. In immunodiffusion plates a single apparently genus-specific surface antigen could be shown to be present in all but two of the strains tested. Although other common precipitin bands showed the presence of some antigens common between heterologous strains these appeared to be randomly distributed among the strains tested, with the exception of one band shown to be generally specific to strains of D. salexigens. With this exception no other precipitin band could be shown to be consistently specific to any other species, nor consistently common to more than one species.
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Abdollahi, H., Nedwell, D.B. Serological characteristics within the genus Desulfovibrio . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 46, 73–83 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00422231
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