PRECIPITATION AND COMPLEMENT FIXATION REACTIONS WITH RESIDUE ANTIGENS IN THE NON-HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP.
The applicability to the non-hemolytic streptococci of the technique used for the extraction of a soluble precipitating substance from the hemolytic streptococci is demonstrated. With this substance as antigen, it is demonstrated by means of precipitation and complement fixation that the non-hemolytic streptococci form an antigenically distinct, but entirely heterogeneous group. Such cross-reactions as do occur within this group are not useful in the systematic classification of these organisms.
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Department of Internal Medicine of Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.