TABLE 1.
Distribution of cell ends by typea
| Basis of analysis (n) | No. of cell ends with indicated morphotype |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type 1 | Type 2 | Type 3 | Type 4 | Total | |
| All cell ends (214) | |||||
| Tomogram | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Cryo-TEM | 80 | 68 | 39 | 19 | 206 |
| Total | 83 | 70 | 41 | 20 | 214 |
| Ends in cells with two typeable ends (38) | |||||
| Type 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| Type 2 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 16 | |
| Type 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | ||
| Type 4 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 5 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 38 |
a
Data are combined results from two independently prepared samples involving a total of 176 treponemes: 130 cells with only one cell end observed, 38 cells with both cell ends (all observed by cryo-electron microscopy), and eight tomograms.