Diameter of a cross-section of a typical cell

Range 100 to 180 nm
Organism Bacteria Leptospira interrogans
Reference Beck M, Malmström JA, Lange V, Schmidt A, Deutsch EW, Aebersold R. Visual proteomics of the human pathogen Leptospira interrogans. Nat Methods. 2009 Nov6(11):817-23. p.817 right column bottom paragraphPubMed ID19838170
Comments "The human pathogen L. interrogans has a strongly elongated and helically coiled cell shape. The diameter of a cross-section of a typical cell is no more than 100–180 nm and its length is 6–20 µm."
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