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Dense inclusion bodies were observed under the STEM mode of a scanning electron microscope to occupy peripheral locations in air-dried filaments ofBeggiatoa alba B18LD, and they were determined by energy-dispersive x-ray microanalysis to consist almost entirely of sulfur. These inclusions conform in position and size (220–275 nm in diameter) to bodies seen in thin sections to be both membrane-bounded and enclosed within pockets penetrating the individual cell from the cytoplasmic membrane.
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Lawry, N.H., Jani, V. & Jensen, T.E. Identification of the sulfur inclusion body inBeggiatoa alba B18LD by energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis. Current Microbiology 6, 71–74 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01569006
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