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| Year : 1995 | Volume
: 41
| Issue : 1 | Page : 3-4 |
Outbreak of kala-azar in Bombay.
S Bhatia, N Patel, S Gulhane, V Dongre, FF Jijina, AV Pathare
Department of Hematology, KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai.
Correspondence Address:
S Bhatia
Department of Hematology, KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai.
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PMID: 0010740690 
A chance diagnosis of kala-azar in a patient referred from Acworth Leprosy Home in Bombay was followed up, resulting in an investigation of a total of 25 patients (inpatients and residents) for the presence of the disease. 30.3% of the patients investigated were found to be suffering from the disease. This confirms the earlier suspicion that Bombay and especially the Acworth Leprosy Home is an endemic area for kala-azar.
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