A New Serological Test for Kala-Azar
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چکیده
Recently, Major R. N. Chopra, i.m.s., Pro| fessor of Pharmacology at the Calcutta School ; of Tropical Medicine, whilst carrying out some j pharmacological experiments with antimony ; compounds, noticed that when the serum from a kala-azar patient was added to certain of the pentavalent compounds of antimony a heavy precipitate was formed. He found that this precipitate was not formed if normal serum was added to any of these compounds, or if a kalaazar serum was added to sodium antimony tartrate.
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