THE JOHNS HOPKINS
MEDICAL JOURNAL

VOLUME 132

ORAL FLUID THERAPY OF CHOLERA
AMONG BANGLADESH REFUGEES

D. Mahalanabis, A. B. Choudhuri, N. G. Bagchi, A. K. Bhattacharya and T. W. Simpson

The John Hopkins University
Center for Medical Research and Training
Calcutta, India

Received for publication January 12, 1973

Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973

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