Abstract
Summary
Metal shadow-cast preparations reveal under electron microscopy many details of bacterial morphology. The three-dimensional effect achieved with this technic brings out with especial clarity the shapes of organisms and the contours of their surfaces; shadowing also makes evident their flagellar and other extra-cellular processes. Illustrative shadowed electron micrographs are given of subtilis-like and typhoid-like organisms and of several forms of cocci.
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