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Its occurrence in freshly isolated strains of this organism may nullify agglutination by \u2018O\u2019 and \u2018H\u2019 antisera. Boiling the suspension destroys the Vi coating, or the untreated suspension may be agglutinated by a Vi antiserum (prepared from alcohol-treated strains). Possession of the Vi antigen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-v"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vi antigen - Definition of Vi antigen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A surface somatic antigen of some enterobacterial species, especially S. typhi. 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