The Parasitology of Malaria in the Darjeeling Terai
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IC. L. CHOWDHURY, m.b. (From the Section of Medical Entomology, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta.) During 1929 a survey party from tins institution was deputed to collect data relating to the incidence of blackwater fever and malaria in the tea gardens of the Darjeeling Terai, and the following notes are a report on the malarial parasites of the region. Thin films only were prepared from children aged from 2 to 10, and after staining with Irishman's stain, an examination of 6 minutes was given to each before pronouncing it negative. The " parasitised children " rate was found to be 47.4 per cent, in 1,753 children, who included 307, or 17.5 per cent., of multiple infections.
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دوره 65 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016