Size Distribution of Bacterial Cells

V R Stull

doi:10.1128/jb.109.3.1301-1303.1972

. 1972 Mar;109(3):1301–1303. doi: 10.1128/jb.109.3.1301-1303.1972

Size Distribution of Bacterial Cells

V R Stull ¹

PMCID: PMC247356 PMID: 4551753

Abstract

By using differential light-scattering measurements of single cells suspended in a laser beam, an effective cell radius has been determined for 141 individual bacteria from suspensions of Staphylococcus epidermidis. The accumulation of these measurements has provided the size distribution for the sampling.