Anti-Salmonella H-b antibody (ab78998)

Relevance

Salmonella is a genus of rod shaped, gram negative, non spore forming, predominantly motile enterobacteria and cause many types of infections from mild gastroenteritis to life threatening typhoid fever. Salmonella can be serotyped according to somatic antigens O (group O: O2-O67 groups), surface Vi , phase I flagellar and phase II flagellar (H types: H-a- H-z81) antigens. The somatic O antigen are heat stable and upon which grouping of the organism is based. The H antigen are heat labile and usually associated with motility. H antigen exist in 2 phases, phase I and phase II.