[sci.bio] WBC with indigestion?

danko@bwdls58.UUCP (Attila Danko) (11/16/90)

I have been looking at white blood cells under a phase-contrast                
microscope. Some of them contained a number of tiny particles 
that were jiggling busily about inside the cytoplasm. I dont
think they were larger than 1 micrometer in size. Could the 
particles be freshly ingested bacteria still struggling to get
out? (The WBCs were from an infected skin pore... err... pimple.) 

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