Ten Cases of Typhus in Civilians in Calcutta
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It was in 1942 that the attention of the writer was first drawn to the occurrence of a fever of the typhus group in and around Calcutta. It was then that a small outbreak occurred in a group of Greek sailors staying on shore in an area not far from the port of Calcutta. Details of this outbreak have not been published. In 1943 the writer saw a considerable number of cases of typhus in military personnel in the Calcutta area. These cases occurred in both Indian and British troops. It was noticeable that most of the cases were of the nature of scrub typhus, showing agglutination of proteus OXK in the Weil-Felix test, but there were
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