Strings of sugars called polysaccharides are the most abundant biopolymers on Earth. Because of their versatile and environmentally friendly properties, these molecules could eventually replace some ...

After a preliminary blood sample had been obtained all patients were injected subcutaneously in the arm with 0.08 mg. each of pneumococcus capsular polysaccharide Types 2 and 7. Three weeks later a ...

Human antibodies to bacterial polyaaccharides consist primarily of IgG and are largely restricted to the IgG2 subclass. We examined the ontogeny of the IgG subclass response to pneumococcal ...

In In vivo expression of the type 8 capsular polysaccharide (CP) of Staphylococcus aureus was studied in the rat model of aortic valve endocarditis. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with ...

Consecutive serum samples from patients with Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis or septicemia or non-5, aureus endocarditis and febrile nonsepticemic controls were tested for antibodies against S.