Report on an Epidemic of Scrub Typhus (K Form) Treated at a General Hospital in Burma *Paper rearranged by the editor.
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was one on that day and one again on the 7th; the number increased to 3 on the 9th and from the 11th patients came in increasing numbers up to the 20th; on the 21st there were only 3 and on the 25th only one, and the admissions ceased. Out of these 107 cases, 105 were from one unit camping in a rural area; out of the five companies of this unit, one company escaped the disease excepting for five members who
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دوره 80 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1945