Abstract
Electron-microscopic examination of gingival plaque microflora showed a bacillus-like, microencapsulated, thick-walled organism with a previously unreported structure. This structure, which is not an example of fimbriae, flagellae, or attached extracellular polysaccharide, is a tuft of thin fibers about 0.3 μm long at only one end of the cell. The fibers begin in or near to the cell wall and pass through the microcapsule to the outside. The name lotussy is proposed for this new structure and the name lotuslifa for an individual fiber or filament.
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