THE SUMMARY OF OUR EXPERIMENTS (TABLE V) INCLUDING DATA PREVIOUSLY REPORTED IS AS FOLLOWS: 1. Twenty-two patients were studied, in all of whom the diagnosis of kala-azar was confirmed by puncture of the spleen or liver, with recovery of Leishman-Donovan bodies. 2. Microscopic examination of the nasal secretions revealed typical parasites in twelve (54.5 per cent) of the twenty-two cases. 3. Mic...

In 1950s the Government of India under National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP) now National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, launched massive insecticidal spraying with DDT for malaria vector control and kala-azar came to a halt in Assam as a collateral benefit of malaria eradication programme. As a result, there were no further reports of kala-azar from the northeastern region exc...

Sir, Kala-azar, transmitted by sandflies was endemic in Assam until 1950, with three major epidemics between 1875 and 19501,2. Intensive insecticide spraying as part of National Malaria Eradication Programme eliminated the disease from Assam by mid 1950s, except for isolated case reports upto 19853. We recently diagnosed kalaazar in an adult male aged 43 years from Guwahati city, Assam, who was...