Clinical Features and Laboratory Diagnosis of XK or Mite-Borne Typhus as Observed in 102 Cases in the Barrackpore Area
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Epidemiological Observations on XK or Mite-Borne Typhus in Barrackpore, Bengal
This disease was first recognized in Japan about 1878. When reports about the diseasewere published in the medical press, other countries became alive to the possibility of this fever occurring among their people. Between 1909 and 1935 many scattered endemic areas were found in China, Indo-China, Dutch East Indies, Australia, Malaya, Burma, India, and several islands in the Far East. In these a...
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دوره 84 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1949