In the Indian Medical Gazette for June 1927, Chopra, Gupta, and David described a new serum test for kala-azar. These workers observed that when certain organic compounds of antimony were brought in contact with the serum from kala-azar patients in a miniature testtube, a thick flocculent precipitate was formed at the junction of the two; whereas with nonkala-azar sera no such precipitation occ...

1. Rogers L. The epidemic malarial fever of Assam, or kala-azar, successfully eradicated from tea garden lines. Br Med J. 1898; 2:891–2. 2. Price JD, Rogers L. The uniform success of segregation measures in eradicating Kala-azar from Assam tea gardens: it is bearing on the probable mode of infection. BMJ. 1914;1:285–9. http://dx.doi. org/10.1136/bmj.1.2771.285 3. Kaul SM, Sharma RS, Borgohain B...

ALLIANCE CAPABILITY, STOCK MARKET RESPONSE, AND LONG-TERM ALLIANCE SUCCESS: THE ROLE OF THE ALLIANCE FUNCTION PRASHANT KALE,* JEFFREY H. DYER AND HARBIR SINGH 1 University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. 2 Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, U.S.A. 3 The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,...

Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) is a nutritious food and a staple for millions of people. Not only are lentils a good source of energy, they also contain a range of micronutrients and prebiotic carbohydrates. Kale (Brassica oleracea v. acephala) has been considered as a health food, but its full range of benefits and composition has not been extensively studied. Recent studies suggest that foods...

BACKGROUND Kala-azar is a multisystem infection of the reticuloendothelial system. Various hematologic abnormalities have been described in kala-azar including hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS).  METHODS We reviewed bone marrow aspirate smears from 18 documented cases of kala-azar complicated by HPS.  RESULTS The bone marrow smears were hypercellular with erythroid hyperplasia. Megaloblastic ch...

abstract soil contamination by heavy metals is yet one of the most important environmental concerns. among heavy metals, nickel and cadmium have dangerous influences on human, animals and plants. the objective of this study was to derive a new model for simultaneous phytoextraction of ni and cd from contaminated soils. consequently, a macroscopic model was derived by combining yield reduction f...

BACKGROUND Cabbage vegetables, like Brassica group, are perceived as very valuable food products. They have a very good nutritive value, high antioxidant activity and pro-healthy potential. Especially, kale (Brassica oleracea L. var. acephala) is characterized by good nutritional and pro-healthy properties, but this vegetable is not popular in Poland. The aim of this work was to assess the chem...

INTRODUCTION Elimination of kala-azar is planned for South Asia requiring good surveillance along with other strategies. We assessed surveillance in Gaffargaon upazila (a subdistrict of 13 unions) of Mymensingh district, Bangladesh highly endemic for kala-azar. METHODS In 4703 randomly sampled households, within nine randomly sampled villages, drawn from three randomly sampled unions, we acti...