[Supplemental data to the ultrastructural study of Trichomonas tenax. Intra-cellular distribution of acid phosphatase].

In scanning electron microscopy, the flagella come out from the cellular body following different configurations: either separately or in groups. The undulating membrane lasted up to 2/3 of the cell body: at its end the recurrent flagella seems to penetrate again into the cell. The costa starts from the cinetosome of the recurrent flagella: the two parabasal filaments start from two different cinetosomes and follow the costa for a small distance. The nucleus is surrounded by a membrane which is not always visible. The axostyle has a cylindrical shape in the posterior two thirds of the cell. Bacteria at different stages of phagocytosis have been observed. The acid phosphatase is localized in the saccules and vesicles of the Golgi apparatus, in the lysosomes and phagolysosomes and in the terminal lamina of the undulating membrane.