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Science 7 April 1972:
Vol. 176. no. 4030, pp. 57 - 58
DOI: 10.1126/science.176.4030.57
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Shared Antigens between Mycobacterium bovis (BCG) and Other Bacterial Species

Percy Minden 1, J. Kenneth McClatchy 1, Rebecca Cooper 1, Emil J. Bardana Jr. 1, and Richard S. Farr 1

1 National Jewish Hospital and Research Center, Denver, Colorado

Antigens from Mycobacterium bovis and Listeria monocytogenes bind to serums from normal rabbits as well as from those immunized with unrelated bacteria, especially intracellular parasites. Binding is to the Fab portion of immunoglobulin G and is immunologically specific.


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