Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Shigella dysenteriae [ICD11:
XN285 
]
Publication DOI: 10.1016/S0580-9517(08)70448-3Publisher: London, Academic Press
Editors: Bergan T
Institutions: Decatur, Georgia, USA and Department of Bacteriology, National Bacteriological Laboratory and Karolinska Institute, Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden
This chapter discusses the principles for serology of Shigella. The Shigella organisms are members of the family Enterobacteriaceae and the tribe Escherichieae. The serotytping of shigellae depends upon the determination of O-antigens and O-antigen factors. As shigellae are non-flagellar, H-(flagellar)-antigens are not involved. Fewer antisera are, therefore, required for a complete serotyping of Shigella. The O-antigens heat-stable somatic lipopolysaccharide (LPS) cell wall antigens of known serotypes of Shigella are closely related to those of one or another of the numerous O-antigen groups of Escherichia coli (E. coli). An analysis of lipopolysaccharides from Shigella has unraveled the structure of the O-antigenic polysaccharide chain in the LPS of the bacterial outer membrane. Within the Shigella species, confirmed by their biochemical reactions, a subdivision into serotypes is based on the reactivity of isolated bacteria with a set of antibody preparations. Only the antigenic specificity found in the polysaccharide O-antigenic part of the LPS of the cell envelope is used for typing purposes.
serology, Salmonella, review
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit
Location inside paper: p.128, table XI
Compound class: O-polysaccharide, O-antigen
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_125611,IEDB_130668,IEDB_130669,IEDB_136105,IEDB_136906,IEDB_137340,IEDB_137472,IEDB_137483,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_151528,IEDB_151531,IEDB_190606,IEDB_225177,IEDB_885823,SB_7
Comments, role: review
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 984897Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G76746EO, GlycomeDB:
6223
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