Tropical Eosinophilia
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Frimodt-Moller and Barton (1940) described a clinical condition characterized by leukocytosis and eosinophilia and associated with cough, fever, loss of weight and strength, bloodstained sputum or frank haemoptysis and asthma or bronchitis in varying combinations and degrees. These cases gave an x-ray picture of the chest closely resembling that of miliary tuberculosis. The common pattern of signs and symptoms, the distinctive blood picture, the absence of any laboratory finding suggestive of tuberculosis and the uniformly good prognosis combined to justify the labelling of these cases
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