Chopra's Antimony Test in a Non-Endemic Kala-Azar Area
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During the session of the Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine held at Calcutta in December 1927, Lieut.-Co . B. N. Chopra of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine demonstrated a simple te> 01 diagnosing kala-azar. With a view to find on its efficiency 1 undertook to carry out som* control tests in a non-kala-azar distric ? part of this work was commenced in April 1928 at Khandala at Tata Construction Co. s labour (,amp, with the kind permission of the Lngineei -
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