in a descriptive analytical study in six villages in meshkin shahr area, the important endemic focus of kala-azar in northwest iran, a kap study was carried out on various aspects of kala-azar in a total of 245 young mothers selected randomly and interviewed the results of the present investigation showed that 93.5% of the mothers were illiterate and only 2.4% of them had acceptable knowledge a...

Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar is an endemic parasitic disease in some parts of the world which is characterized by fever, splenomegaly, and pancytopenia in most of the cases. Herein we report an 11 month-old male infant with diagnosis of kala-azar who presented with pallor, hepatosplenomegaly, failure to gain weight, and no history of fever. Surprisingly, fever started after beginning of ...

Introduction.?About eighteen months ago, we (Napier and Sen, 1940) published a preliminary paper on the treatment of kala-azar by 4 : 4'-diamidino stilbene. At the time our paper was sent to press, there were in the literature? that had arrived in this country?only two detailed reports on cases treated by this drug (Adams and Yorke, 1939; and Adler and Rachmilewitz, 1939). Since then a small sp...