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Influenza virus

Negative contrast electron microscopy of purified virus.

  
Influenza A-HK-1-68_H3N2_FAM_2_greyscale_thumb

Influenza virus, A/Hong Kong/1/68, the causative agent of the 1968 global epidemic. Negatively stained virions showing surface projections which contain the receptors by which the virus attaches to host respiratory tract epithelial cells. Magnification: approximately x70,000.
Micrograph from F. A. Murphy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

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Influenza A-HK-1-68 H3N2 FAM colorized thumb

Influenza virus, colorized, A/Hong Kong/1/68, the causative agent of the 1968 global epidemic. Negatively stained virions showing surface projections which contain the receptors by which the virus attaches to host respiratory tract epithelial cells. Magnification: approximately x70,000.
Micrograph from F. A. Murphy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

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Influenza virus, A/Hong Kong/1/68, the causative agent of the 1968 global epidemic. Negatively stained virions showing surface projections which contain the receptors by which the virus attaches to host respiratory tract epithelial cells. Magnification: approximately x70,000.

Micrograph from F. A. Murphy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

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