Kala azar (Visceral leishmaniasis) in India refers to the special circumstances of the disease kala azar as it exists in India. Kala azar is a major health...
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Visceral leishmaniasis (redirect from Kala azar)
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar (Hindi: kālā āzār, "black sickness") or "black fever", is the most severe form of leishmaniasis and...
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Upendranath Brahmachari (category People from British India)
physician and scientist. In 1922, he synthesised urea-stibamine (carbostibamide) and demonstrated its effectiveness in treating kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis)...
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Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a complication of visceral leishmaniasis (VL); it is characterised by a macular, maculopapular, and nodular...
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The treatment of kala-azar in India since about year 2000 has been difficult. In 2017 the Indian government had contained kala-azar in certain regions...
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C. P. Thakur (category India MPs 1984–1989)
Committee Government of India 1990-93 Member, Advisory Committee on Kala-azar Government of India 1991 Member, Expert Kala-azar committee to formulate...
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis (redirect from Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis)
causing kala-azar can lead to PKDL, it is commonly associated with Leishmania donovani which gives different disease patterns in India and Sudan. In the Indian...
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Leishmaniasis (redirect from Post kala azar dermal leishmaniasis)
Gewurtz MS (1 January 2017). "Transnationalism in Missionary Medicine: The Case of Kala-azar in China and India, 1909–1946". Social Sciences and Missions....
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seems to be the first modern clinical description of kala azar, which he called "tropical sprue". In his description, he said that it was "endemic cachexia...
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History of the Parsis Vol-I, Karaka Dosabhai Framji. 1884. A Treatise on Kala-Azar, Brahmachari Upendranath. 1928. "Aligarh kee taleemi tehreek", Khwaja...
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on enteric fever and kala-azar. He returned to the United Kingdom and was stationed at the Victoria Hospital in Netley in 1897. In 1900 he was made Assistant...
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Indian Council of Medical Research (category 1911 establishments in India)
cholera and diarrhoeal diseases, viral diseases including AIDS, malaria, kala-azar, vector control, nutrition, food & drug toxicology, reproduction, immuno-haematology...
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Charles Donovan (category British people in colonial India)
2008). "Pursuit of medical knowledge: Charles Donovan (1863–1951) on kala-azar in India". J Med Biogr. 16 (2): 72–6. doi:10.1258/jmb.2007.007004. PMID 18463075...
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research for a kala azar (Leishmaniasis) vaccine in India, but none exists. Foreign tourists visiting India contribute significantly to India's economy. People...
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Mohan Mishra (category Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine)
leishmaniasis, (Kala Azar) and its treatment using Amphotericin B, regarded by many as a pioneering attempt. The Government of India honoured him, in 2014, with...
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Ronald Ross (category British people in colonial India)
Donovani Found in Kala-azar (1904) Researches on Malaria (1905) Note on a Flagellate Parasite Found in Culex Fatigans (1906) Malaria in Greece (1909) Missionaries...
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Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (category Scientific organisations based in India)
Society of Biological Chemists of India (1999-2000), known for outstanding contribution in Kala-azar research in India. "Annual Report 2011-2012" (PDF)...
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Infectious Disease Research Institute (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
unfit URL (link) Elvidge, Suzanne (February 23, 2012). "World's first kala azar vaccine enters the clinic". FierceVaccines.com. Archived from the original...
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Ernest Black Struthers (category Presbyterian missionaries in China)
College in Seoul, Korea. Additionally, he is known for his contributions to the treatment of kala-azar, including his published chapter in Cecil’s Textbook...
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Practice of Tropical Medicine and his 1923 book, coauthored by Ernest Muir, Kala Azar: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners. Napier graduated from St John's...
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Leishmania donovani (category Protists described in 1903)
It is a human blood parasite responsible for visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar, the most severe form of leishmaniasis. It infects the mononuclear phagocyte...
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Sushila Koirala (category Nepalese expatriates in India)
entitled Atmabrittanta, and has added that she survived kala-azar. Sushila Koirala died on 13 July 2007 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Sushila Koirala always believed...
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Ashish Arora (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
commonly known as Kala Azar and has delivered invited speeches at various seminars. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the...
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Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
leishmaniasis also known as kala-azar, black fever and Dumdum fever. It is named after the memory of the first president of Republic of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad...
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Frederick Percival Mackie (category Companions of the Order of the Star of India)
fever and kala-azar. He had important administrative responsibilities in Iraq during the First World War and emerged as a leading figure in Indian medical...
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Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata (category 1835 establishments in British India)
professor of anatomy Upendranath Brahmachari, discoverer of the treatment of Kala-azar Aroup Chatterjee, British Indian atheist physician, author of Mother Teresa:...
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Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital (category 1873 establishments in British India)
a baby. In 1922, Dr. Upendranath Brahmachari discovered Urea Stibamine for the treatment of Kala-azar which was considered as a landmark in the field...
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Médecins Sans Frontières (category Organisations based in Geneva)
than 27,000 Kala-Azar patients with a success rate of approximately 90–95%. There are plans to open an additional Kala-Azar treatment centre in Malakal,...
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Henry Edward Shortt (category British people in colonial India)
he returned again to England. During his time in India he was a member and later Director of the Kala azar Commission from 1926 to 1933 and Director of...
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Sonipat Junction railway station (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
will be a bypass pariyojna which will run along the KMP Expressway. Shaikh, Azar S. "SNP/Sonipat Junction Station - 62 Train Departures NR/Northern Zone -...
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