Determination of Blood Groups from Meals of Blood-Sucking Insects
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B. C. DAS, m.sc. (f/orn the Laboratory of the Imperial Serologist and Chemical Examiner to the Government of India, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta) mi.. * 'ie material.?Mosquitoes and bed bugs were ^ed on subjects of known blood groups an squashed on chemically pure filter-paper. stains so obtained were dried. _ The insects were bred from eggs in the Entom logical Department of the School of Tropical Medicine. The mosquitoes "were fed once only and then squashed, some after. 3 hours and others after 24 hours. The bed bugs were fed for several days until a suitable size was reached. Then, like the first batch of mosquitoes, they
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