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Electron Microscope Studies of the Structure of the Influenza Virus

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FROM studies of the growth-cycle of influenza virus, Hoyle1,2 formed the hypothesis that the virus elementary body consisted of an aggregate of smaller units, and Burnet and Lind3 arrived at a similar concept from studies of virus variation. Hoyle2,4 showed that the virus could be disintegrated by shaking with ether, with the production of separate red-cell agglutinating and complement-fixing particles of smaller size than that of the elementary body.

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    L. HOYLE

  2. Dept. of Biomolecular Structure, University of Leeds,

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HOYLE, L., REED, R. & ASTBURY, W. Electron Microscope Studies of the Structure of the Influenza Virus. Nature 171, 256–257 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171256b0

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