Typhus in Bombay. Part II: Epidemiology

Typhus in Bombay. Part I: Clinical Features

the past fifty years, had unfortunately produced an impression amongst the physicians as well as the public health personnel that typhus was not present in Bombay. It is regrettable that this false sense of security should have prevailed also in other parts of India, in spite of the fact that localized outbreaks had occurred from time to time in the mountainous regions of the north, and in the ...

Typhus in Bombay. Part III: Identification of Strains

Isolation of typhus strains from man In the isolation of strains advantage was taken of the enhanced susceptibility to the typhus infection of the guinea-pigs placed 011 a vitamin-free diet, to which attention was drawn by Zinsser et al. (1931). The diet consisted of autoclaved milk and rolled oats for a period of about 10 days, approximately six days Ijefore and four days after inoculation, wh...

The Incidence and Distribution of Murine Typhus Amongst Bombay Rats

Scrub Typhus (Mite Typhus) in Bombay with a Report on the Isolation of Causal Rickettsia *This work has been carried out under the auspices of the Indian Research Fund Association

Weil-Felix reaction with blood of patients suffering ̂ from scrub typhus during its course shows significant agglutination titres against yproteus XK strains. In Bombay. Patel (1940) reported on two cases but the titres were ^r below the diagnostic level. Later, two more cases clinically suspected and serologically confirmed were reported by Patel (1943) and Patel (1943). Systematic Weil-Felix r...

Typhus Exanthematicus in Romania During the Second World War (1940–1945) Reflected by Romanian Medical Journals of the Time

This article provides a picture of exanthematic Typhus in Romania during the Second World War: epidemiological aspects of this disease in the inner zone and in the zone of military operations, as well as information about the diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis of the Typhus in our country during this period.