Sir,?The translation of the article of Drs. G. Di Cristana and G. Caronia in the May 15th number of the Journal of Tropical Medicine, reporting the successful treatment of the Mediterranean form of kala-azar by means of tartar emetic intravenously, lias just reached India. I, therefore, write to place on record the fact that I had previously commenced precisely similar treatment of the Indian f...

of trypanosomiasis by intravenous injection of tartar emetic or other soluble salts of antimony, it has been found that though they quickly free the peripheral blood from trypanosomes, still the parasites remain in the internal organs. So far, therefore, the treatment of trypanosomiasis by means of intravenous injection of soluble salts of antimony has not been a permanent success. In kala-azar...

Leishman stained smears prepared from ninety-nine (99) splenic aspirates and eleven (11) slit skin were examined under light microscope in order to detect L.D. bodies at the department of Microbiology, Rajshahi Medical College from 2002 to May 2003. L.D. bodies were found in 46 (46.46%) and 01 (9.09%) samples of splenic aspirates and slit skin smears respectively. Smear positivity and concomita...

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?Dr. Brahmachari advises the use of sodium chloride in making up antimony solutions for injection, ' and Drs. Napier and Muir state that the use of sodium chloride does not matter much and their injections can be given without sodium chloride. I have recently noticed in my kala-azar centres that while using scale preparation of sodium antimony tart...

Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar is a potent parasitic infection causing death of thousands of people each year. Medicinal compounds currently available for the treatment of kala-azar have serious side effects and decreased efficacy owing to the emergence of resistant strains. The type of immune reaction is also to be considered in patients infected with Leishmania donovani (L. donovani). Fo...

The importance of kala-azar and its early diagnosis Kala-azar is a disease which apparently produces periodical epidemics. There were several epidemics during the nineteenth century, and there was an epidemic early in this century which subsided during the period 1920-30, this subsidence being probably accelerated by the effective treatment for the disease which first was introduced during that...

Reports at the Sir Sunder Lal Hospital, Banaras Hindu University, of a large number of kala-azar cases from one particular village in Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh, led us to carry out an epidemiological study of the situation using standard techniques. The overall prevalence and case fatality of the disease were 12.9% and 10.5%, respectively. A history of fever and hepatosplenomegaly was no...

The first case of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis was reported in India by ia machari in 1922. A series of cases oi tins infection were reported later on by Napier anci other workers; but not a single case has een reported from treated kala-azar cases in endemic area in China up to the presen im?Both of ns have made a careful search amo g the treated cases either from other clinics 01 1 the...