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THE problem of correlating morphological with antigenic concepts in bacteria has made surprisingly little progress since the flagellar, capsular and somatic antigens were first recognized. Antigenic analysis has indeed required that certain somatic antigens should be regarded as occupying locations nearer or farther from the surface of the cell, but this is almost the entire extent of the concept.
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BISSET, K. Some Relationships between Morphology and Antigenic Structure in Bacteria. Nature 171, 1118–1119 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/1711118a0
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