Capable of producing or triggering agglutination; relating to substances that cause agglutinins to form.
From agglutinogen + -ic (Greek -ikos) adjective-forming suffix. Describes the quality of producing agglutination response.
Certain bacterial surface proteins are highly agglutinogenic—they're so obviously foreign to the immune system that the body floods the bloodstream with antibodies to make them clump, which is why some infections cause dramatic immune reactions.
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