A method is suggested for preparing ultra-fine sections of free phage particles. After adding antiphage serum and OsO
4 to the phagofiltrate the material is lyophilized in a frozen state. Later the material is placed into a metacrylate mixture with benzoyl peroxide, and is afterwards embedded by the usual method. Preliminary data are presented on the electron microscopic picture of phage particles (the ultra-fine sections).
Translated from Byulleten'' Éksperimental''noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 52, No. 10. pp. 78–79, October, 1961.
For Report XIII, see Zhurnal Mikrobiologii, Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii,2, 29 (1959).