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IT seems to be an almost universal characteristic of animal cells that they can be damaged by incubation with specific antibody and serum complement. Indeed, the only animal cells which seem to be consistently resistant to this combination are Gram positive bacteria as a class and many strains of Gram negative bacteria.
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REYNOLDS, B., ROWLEY, D. Sensitization of Complement Resistant Bacterial Strains. Nature 221, 1259–1261 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2211259a0
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