Abstract
THE eighth annual report of the Director of the School of Tropical Medicine of the University of Puerto Rico (under the auspices of Columbia University), recently received, summarises the work of the School during the year ending June 1934. Seminars, lectures and clinics are held weekly in the School, and the Pan-American Medical Association visited the School in March. Much research’ work has been done, of which an outline is given. This includes a study of tuberculosis and its occurrence in tho Island, and a skin test for Brucella infection has been developed. In the Department of Chemistry, work on vitamin A testing of Puerto Rican food plants has been completed. In parasifcology, special methods for detecting ova of Schistoaoma manaoni have been devised, and some cases of human infection with the liver-fluke, Fosciola hepatica, have been detected. In mycology, infection with new species of ringworm organisms has been found, and the disease known as granuloma inguinale has been investigated. A list of the papers that have been published from the School is appended, together with details of administration and finance.
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Tropical Diseases Research in Puerto Rico. Nature 136, 332 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136332a0
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