| a further study of ldt and ifat tests in evaluating the control of kala-azar in china. | kala-azar (ka) used to be highly prevalent in shandong province in china and, according to the survey made in 1950, the average prevalence rate was 350 per million. through mass treatment and sandfly control, the prevalence rate was brought down to 3 per 100,000 in 1958 and the disease was basically eliminated. since 1972, only 18 residual patients have been detected and no newly infected cases have appeared. in the meantime, the vector density had been reduced to such a low level that sandflies ... | 1994 | 7966538 |
| [kala-azar in china from 1985 to 1988. advisory committee on parasitic diseases, moph]. | a total of 1,069 newly discovered cases of kala-azar (a few recurrent cases included) is recorded in china during the four year period from 1985 to 1988. the kala-azar patients were found in the provinces and autonomous regions of gansu, sichuan, xinjiang, shaanxi, shanxi, inner-mongolia and shandong. comparing with the 443 cases recorded during the previous 4 years period 1981-1984, significant uprise of the disease is evident, especially in the provinces of gansu and sichuan. in southern gansu ... | 1989 | 2591032 |