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Sand-flies and Kala-azar

Nature volume 119, page 893 (1927)Cite this article

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IN the issue of NATURE dated Mar. 26, p. 460, there is a letter from the Kala-azar Commission of the Royal Society working in north China in which the claim is made that for the first time an infection with kala-azar has been produced by means of the intraperitoneal inoculation of the midgut contents of the genus Phlebotomus into an experimental animal.

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  1. (Director.), Kala-azar Commission, Shillong, Assam, India

    H. E. SHORT

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SHORT, H. Sand-flies and Kala-azar. Nature 119, 893 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119893b0

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