exoantigen

ec·to·an·ti·gen

(ek'tō-an'ti-jen),

Any toxin or other excitor of antibody formation, separate or separable from its source.

Synonym(s): exoantigen

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exoantigen

A nonspecific term for any non-self-antigen; this term is not commonly used in the working biomedical parlance.

ec·to·an·ti·gen

(ek'tō-an'ti-jen)

Any toxin or other excitor of antibody formation, separate or separable from its source.
Synonym(s): exoantigen.

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

exoantigen

(ĕks″ō-ăn′tĭ-jĕn) [″ + ″]

A soluble antigen found on the surface of a microorganism, identified in the supernatant of a culture of that organism.

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Because of the involvement of IgA, HSP is expected to be a sick serum illness related to aberrant expression of autoantigen or exoantigen in the mucous membranes [17].

Successful outcome of a corticodependent Henoch-Schonlein purpura adult with rituximab

Briefly, 100 [micro]L exoantigen (500 ng of protein), diluted in 0.06 M carbonate-bicarbonate buffer (pH 9.6) was added to each well of polystyrene microtiter plates (NUNC[TM] Brand products, Switzerland) and incubated at 37[degrees]C for 2 hours and after 18 hours at 4[degrees]C.

Firstly, exoantigen (87.5 xg final concentrations) was denatured at 100[degrees]C for 5 min.

Detection of anti-Paracoccidioides brasiliensis antibodies in suspected tuberculosis patients/Deteccao de anticorpos anti-Paracoccidioides brasiliensis em pacientes suspeitos de tuberculose

How it works: By mimicking a molecule called glycolipid exoantigen found in the chlamydia virus.

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immitis exoantigen test kit (Scott Laboratories Inc., Fiskeville, RI).

Coccidioidomycosis in New York State

Examples of this include the cryptococcal antigen agglutination assay and the exoantigen assay for Histoplasma capsulatum.

Molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases

dermatitidis colonies can be identified early using recently developed DNA probes (5) and exoantigen technology.

Blastomycosis - Wisconsin, 1986-1995

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