Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 65, Issue 3 , Pages 315-324 , 1971

Malaria and the tropical splenomegaly syndrome in New Guinea

  • G.G. Crane

      Affiliations

    • Present address: Institute of Human Biology, P.O. Box 60, Goroka, Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
    • ,
  • D.S. Pryor

      Affiliations

    • Present address: The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, W.C.1.

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☆ The Haematology Research Unit is supported by the Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, and by the Wellcome Trust, to whom we are indebted. We should like to acknowledge the assistance of Mr. Rabby Nurvue and Mr. Sam Bapa throughout the survey in both the field and the laboratory. Our thanks are also due to Dr. W. R. Pitney and Professor R. J. Walsh, of the University of New South Wales, for their advice and encouragement.

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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 65, Issue 3 , Pages 315-324 , 1971

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