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UP to the present there have been no records of any infection being produced from Phlebotomus fed on cases of kala-azar, therefore the results of the following experiment may be of interest, since they show that the flagellates which develop in the midgut of sand-flies are capable of producing the infection when they enter a susceptible host. The details of the experiment are as follows:
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HINDLE, E., PATTON, W. Sand-flies and Chinese Kala-azar. Nature 119, 460 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119460b0
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