A chronic disease caused by LEISHMANIA DONOVANI and transmitted by the bite of several sandflies of the genera Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia. It is commonly characterized by fever, chills, vomiting, anemia, hepatosplenomegaly, leukopenia, hypergammaglobulinemia, emaciation, and an earth-gray color of the skin. The disease is classified into three main types according to geographic distribution: Indian, Mediterranean (or infantile), and African.
    

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A kalar-azar treatment centre, Charingia, Assam, India: Indian patients are grouped outside a row of grass-roofed buildings; a motorcar is parked outside one building. Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).

India: an Ituni (?) village: grass-roofed houses on raised wooden platforms with two residents. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Assam, India: an Indian man and woman, wearing simple robes, with their two small children, outside a grass-roofed house. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

The sandfly Phlebotomus argentipes, the transmitter of kala-azar disease, feeding on a mammal. Photomicrograph, 1900/1950.

Assam, India: a river with dense vegetation and trees on its banks. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Leishmansche Anämie / von Prof. Dr. Jemma.

The Milroy lectures on kala-azar, delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London. Lecture II, Kala-azar as a disease / by Leonard Rogers.

Kala-azar : its treatment / by Upendranath Brahmachari.

Notes sur le kala-azar / par Pereira da Silva.

Infection of hamsters (Cricetulus griseus) with Leishmania donovani by the oral and conjunctival routes / Shortt, H.E. [and others].

Leishmaniasis, Visceral

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Leishmansche Anämie / von Prof. Dr. Jemma.

The Milroy lectures on kala-azar, delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London. Lecture II, Kala-azar as a disease / by Leonard Rogers.

Kala-azar : its treatment / by Upendranath Brahmachari.

Notes sur le kala-azar / par Pereira da Silva.

Infection of hamsters (Cricetulus griseus) with Leishmania donovani by the oral and conjunctival routes / Shortt, H.E. [and others].