[On the morphology of flagella and fimbriae of Escherichia strains (author's transl)].

100 Escherichia-strains, isolated from urine and faeces, were investigated with regard to flagella and fimbriae by electron-microskopy. The flagella had a length of 3-6 mu and a diameter of ca 0.02 mu. The flagellation was different not only between to the single bacteria of the same strain, but also in the separated isolates. Of 50 strains from urine had 27 and of 50 strains from feces had 28 no flagella. Different Escherichia-strains contained fimbriae, the number of which was much higher with regard to the flagella. The length of the fimbriae differed between 0.25 and 2 mu, the diameter was constantly ca 8 nm. 21 strains of 100 (4 from 50 urine strains and 17 from 50 faeces strains) had no fimbriae.