[Morphologic characteristics of the large bodies in cultures of the L-forms of bacteria according to scanning electron microscope studies].

Large bodies appear at the time of protoplast and spheroplast formation and are revealed at all the L-transformation stages and at the initial stage of reversion. They can be represented both by a single giant cell and by a conglomerate of different cells connected with one another. They are not only spheroid, but can be of the most varied shape, and structurally they are connected with other L-colony elements: filamentous structures, spheroid cells, elementary bodies and the so-called acellular material. At the early L-transformation stage the large bodies probably appear as a result of coalescence of lysed cells and represent polygenome formations. Elementary bodies and spheroid cells form within the large bodies and on their surface at the late stage of L-transformation. In case of reversion bacterial cells form from them.