The Animal Parasites of Man by Fantham, Braun, Stephens, and Theobald

Fantham, Harold Benjamin, 1876-1937, Braun, Max, 1850-1930, Stephens, J. W. W. (John William Watson), 1865-1946, Theobald, Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent), 1868-1930, Seifert, Otto, 1853-1933

Chapter 12: 1. The infection begins with _elementary bodies_ or _elementary

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Chapter 12: 1. The infection begins with _elementary bodies_ or _elementary

corpuscles_ which live at first extracellularly. An elementary body is a minute speck of chromatin, apparently devoid of cytoplasm, which can pass through a bacterial filter. It can enter a host cell, but the entry is not a process of phagocytosis.
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