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THE recognized elementary bodies of influenza are spherical with diameters1 of 80–100 millimicrons. These spheres are clearly evident in shadowed electron micrographs2, but such photographs also indicate the presence of elongated forms that have the diameter of the spheres and frequently appear partly segmented into them.
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MOSLEY, V., WYCKOFF, R. Electron Micrography of the Virus of Influenza. Nature 157, 263 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157263a0
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