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Weight Relationships among Animal Viruses

Nature volume 172, pages 1154–1155 (1953)Cite this article

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THE most certain estimates of particle size in the case of animal viruses are probably those based on ultra-centrifugation or diffusion measurements coupled with biological assay. Apart from exceptional cases when material of unusual high titre is available, only a combination of the biological with the physical method can ensure that the physical values refer to the particles having the biological properties studied. Electron microscopy, however, to which this safeguard cannot rigidly be applied, can undoubtedly provide excellent confirmatory evidence.

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POLSON, A. Weight Relationships among Animal Viruses. Nature 172, 1154–1155 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/1721154a0

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