Visualization of New Ultrastructural Components in the Cell Wall of Candida Albicans with Fixatives Containing Tapo

INTRODUCTION Electron microscope studies of yeasts have revealed the laminated structure of the cell wall (1, 9, 10, 19), its major chemical constituents being distributed in separate layers (13, 15) . The number of layers and their morphology are, however, a matter of controversy mainly because the methods of chemical fixation of yeast cells for electron microscopy employed to date have been inadequate (11, 16) . In the search for an effective fixative for the