Reprinted with permission from Johns Hopkins Medical School (2000)

A BACTERIAL DISEASE OF LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS

Frederick Bang


The Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and the Department of Pathobiology,
School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University

Received for publication October 12, 1955

Supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid from the National Mogical Institute (E-135) of the U. S. Public Health Service.

FIG. 1. Amoebocytes as they appear in the freshly drawn clotted blood from a healthy limulus. Change in shape caused by exposure to glass. Phase microscopy.