Clinical Studies in Malaria by Cultural and Enumerative Methods
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Assistant Surgeon B. M. DAS GUPTA, Assistant Professor of Protozoology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. In a previous paper (Knowles and Das Gupta, 1930) we reported that we had commenced to make a clinical stud}7 of untreated cases of malaria by cultural and enumerative methods. The series of cases reported in the present paper form a continuation of those reported in our former paper, but also include observations on treatment with quinine, cinchona febrifuge and Plasmoquine. Hence the necessity for a change in the title of the present paper. AVe propose first to detail the fifteen cases studied, with comments on each; then to discuss the points of importance that have so far emerged from these studies.* The cultures were all taken by the modification of Bass' method advocated by J. G. and D. Thomson (1913, 1913a), and the parasite counts were carried out by the enumerative method of Sinton (1924). In every instance 5 c.c. of blood was taken for each culture. In carrying out the counts, the number of parasites corresponding to 250
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دوره 66 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016