I envy those whose minds are stocked with poetry. Archibald Wavell, general and viceroy,
made a long anthology, mainly of narrative poems, and claimed to know nearly all by heart …

A new technic is invariably surrounded by an aura of almost ritualistic mystique that can only
gradually be eroded by the passage of time. One can imagine that after several decades of …

METHODS An emulsion in water or phosphate-buffered saline, about 20 per cent v/v is
made of faeces or homogenised tissue. This is then centrifuged to sediment bacteria, while …

A method is described for examining viruses in faeces by direct electron microscopy using
negative staining. The particles found in a group of patients with gastroenteritis and a group …

Electron microscopes make it possible to see the elementary infectious particles of the
smallest viruses and thus to study these hitherto invisible agents of disease in the same …

In a recent prevalence study of nosocomial infection in the United Kingdom (Meers et al.,
1981), there were surprisingly few reports of virus-associated disease. There is, however …

attend those planned for the future. It will also be a useful source of information on current
work being carried out by many of their colleagues throughout the world. The reports are so …

It is not proposed here to discuss the electron microscope itself, but the reader should be
aware that specimens must be dried for examination in this instrument. Also, since there are …

With the increasing use of electron microscopy for the rapid identification of viruses in
human and animal faeces difficulties might arise in distinguishing enveloped viruses from …

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