Author:
Kwapinski J. B. G.,Kwapinski Elke H.,Dowler Judy,Horsman G.
Abstract
Immunophylogenic relationships of nocardiae to other microorganisms were investigated by means of the immunodiffusion procedures, using 493 cytoplasm preparations and 218 anticytoplasm sera. The cytoplasm antigens of nocardiae were found mainly to be immunologically related to the saprophytic and scotochromogenic mycobacteria, as well as to the streptomycetes possessing the cytoplasmic determinant a. Only a few species of nocardiae cross-reacted with the anticytoplasm sera against Actinomyces israelii, Micromonospora, and Micropolyspora; but none was found to be related directly to the cytoplasm antigens of Eubacteriales. It is suggested that the nocardiae evolved at a later stage than the streptomycetes and candidas through which they are indirectly related to the Eubacteriales.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Genetics,Molecular Biology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,General Medicine,Immunology,Microbiology
Cited by
9 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献