Blackwater Fever in Darjeeling-Terai
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The Parasitology of Malaria in the Darjeeling Terai
IC. L. CHOWDHURY, m.b. (From the Section of Medical Entomology, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta.) During 1929 a survey party from tins institution was deputed to collect data relating to the incidence of blackwater fever and malaria in the tea gardens of the Darjeeling Terai, and the following notes are a report on the malarial parasites of the region. Thin films only were prepared from c...
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