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IN a recent memoir with the above title,1 Captain. W. S. Fatton gives a detailed account of investigations carried on by him in Madras upon the development and transmission of the parasite of Kala-azar, commonly known as Leishmama donovani. As the result of numerous experiments with various blood-sucking insects, the author concludes that the transmission ot Indian Kala-azar from man to man is effected solely by bed-bugs of the genus Cimex, and finds that the parasite develops as readily in C. lectularius, the species common in Europe, as in the Indian species, C. rotundatus. The development observed by the author takes place entirely in the digestive tract of the bug, and is in the main as follows.
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MINCHIN, E. The Development of the Parasite of Indian Kala-Azar . Nature 91, 145–146 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091145a0
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