ABSTRACT
The complex nature of the antigens in suckling mouse-adapted MEFi virus was indicated by Selzer and Poison1, who found that the infectivity was associated with two components of approximate sedimentation coefficients 100 and 173 S respectively. In addition to these components a “soluble antigen” was found which had a sedimentation coefficient of about 22 S. These results, which were obtained by using a Spinco preparative centrifuge (Poison and Linder2), have now been confirmed in the Spinco analytical ultracentrifuge of the Nobel Institute, Stockholm, and other types of poliomyelitis virus have been studied in both instruments.