[Method of electron-autoradiographic study of nucleic acid biosynthesis in bacteria during phagocytosis]

Leukocytes from healthy men exposed to Staphylococcus epidermis were incubated with 3H-uridine and 3H-thymidine. The level of nucleic acid synthesis by phagocyted bacteria was examined by electron microscopic autoradiography. The method makes it possible to correlate bacterial and phagocyte functions with their ultrastructures.