The Control of Kala-Azar on Tea Estates

Notes on the Control of Kala-Azar on Tea Estates

A Preliminary Note on the Treatment of 21 Cases of Kala-Azar with Sodium Antimony Gluconate. (With Special Reference to Its Suitability for Mass Administration on Tea Estates)

Introduction.?The senior writer, Burke (1943), made an appeal for an efficient successor to neostibosan (Bayer), this, preferably, to be a British product. What seems to be an almost perfect answer to that appeal?and indeed a British product?is the preparation stibatin (Glaxo Laboratories), or sodium antimony gluconate (antimony v-hexonate), a crystal-clear sterile solution containing 20 mg. of...

Thirty Years' Experience of Kala-Azar in the Nowgong District of Assam

As the title of this paper denotes it is mainly concerned with my thirty years' experience of kala-azar on the tea estates under my care in the Nowgong District of Assam. The first estate to suffer was attacked in 1893, and the disease slowly spread from estate to estate, the last to suffer beingattacked in 1908. The measures taken to stamp out the disease were fully described by Rogers and mys...

Septic Arthritis Caused by Streptococcus suis Serotype 5 in Pig Farmer

1. Rogers L. The epidemic malarial fever of Assam, or kala-azar, successfully eradicated from tea garden lines. Br Med J. 1898; 2:891–2. 2. Price JD, Rogers L. The uniform success of segregation measures in eradicating Kala-azar from Assam tea gardens: it is bearing on the probable mode of infection. BMJ. 1914;1:285–9. http://dx.doi. org/10.1136/bmj.1.2771.285 3. Kaul SM, Sharma RS, Borgohain B...

The Treatment of Kala-Azar with Sodium Antimony Gluconate (Stibatin). Further Observations on the Treatment of Thirty-Two Cases

couraging results, it was decided to a further extensive trial with this drug in certain hyperendemic kala-azar areas in the tea districts of Mangaldai, as an anti-kala-azar drug of such promising quality was indispensable, especially when, due to present war-time conditions, other pentavalent antimony compounds of proved value, e.g. solustibosan, neostibosan, etc., suitable for mass administra...