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The term ‘cord factor’ designates glycolipids produced by Mycobacteria, Nocardiae, Corynebacteriae, and strains of Arthrobacter and Brevibacterium; they are 6,6′-diesters of α, α-D-trehalose [48] (Fig. 1) (for reviews see [4, 5, 19, 34, 35, 36, 52])1.
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Lederer, E. (1980). Cord Factor and Related Synthetic Trehalose Diesters. In: Chedid, L., Miescher, P.A., Mueller-Eberhard, H.J. (eds) Immunostimulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67809-7_7
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