Observations on the Outbreak of Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis in Burma with a Special Note on Its Bacteriology and on Progress of the Epidemic

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  • G. C. Maitra
  • P. N. SEN GUPTA
چکیده

Cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis occur annually in Burma in sporadic form and the disease has not been known to take on epidemic proportions for a considerable time past. Therefore when a warning was sounded by the Public Health Commissioner for India in March 3935 forecasting possible epidemics of this disease in Burma ' particularly in a number of Urban centres in coming months the medical and public health authorities had to seek advice from the laboratory workers in regard to specific measures to be adopted in case the epidemic materialized. In offering such advice the main difficulty lay in the lack of knowledge about the type or types of organisms responsible for the past attacks and hence those which Would probably give rise to the predicted epidemics. Notwithstanding this handicap group I anti-meningococcus serum raised against Indian strains and the newly prepared meningococcus vaccine issued by the Central /Research Institute, Kasauli, were considered

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دوره 75  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1940