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Leukaemoid reaction in diarrhoeal diseases
A K Chakraborty1, S Basak, K K Haldar
1Department of Pathology, North Bengal Medical College, Sushrutanager, Darjeeling.
Journal of the Indian Medical Association
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
There was an outbreak of diarrhoea/dysentery in Naxalbari, North Bengal in August-September of 1992. Ninety-seven cases were investigated. Bacterial pathogens were isolated from stools of 17 cases and the organisms were Salmonella typhimurium (76%), Salmonella enteritidis (12%) and Shigella dysenteriae type 1(12%). A leukaemoid reaction was observed in 4 cases (24%) amongst all 17 patients and they were all children.