Visualization of bacterial flagella by video-enhanced light microscopy
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 173 (2) , 933-936
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.173.2.933-936.1991
Abstract
We have imaged individual flagellar filaments of Escherichia coli, a motile Streptococcus sp., and Rhizobium meliloti by video-enhanced differential interference-contrast microscopy (Nomarski DIC) and computer-based image processing. This approach has advantages over existing methods in that filaments on living cells can be seen over their entire lengths.Keywords
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