Xenodiagnosis
... for filariasis is now obsolete.[citation needed] Xenodiagnosis-Medical Lexicon Advances in Parasitology, Volume ... Xenodiagnosis has not been commonly used in diagnosing Lyme disease because in vitro cell culturing now serves the purpose, ... Xenodiagnosis is a diagnostic method used to document the presence of infectious disease microorganisms or pathogens by ... Medical professionals primarily use xenodiagnosis in determining the presence of a chronic infection of Trypanosoma cruzi (the ...
Filariasis
Xenodiagnosis is now obsolete, and eosinophilia is a nonspecific primary sign.[citation needed] The recommended treatment for ...
Émile Brumpt
Brumpt is credited for introducing a technique known as xenodiagnosis into parasitological research. In 1935 he described ...
Theileria parva
Xenodiagnosis can be used to confirm the tick vectors but is not used routinely. Blood smears can be performed to detect ...
Babesia
Historically, babesiosis diagnosis was carried out with xenodiagnosis in hamsters for B. microti and in gerbils for B. ...
Infection
In this case, xenodiagnosis involves the use of the vector of the Chagas agent T. cruzi, an uninfected triatomine bug, which ... Another useful identification method is Xenodiagnosis, or the use of a vector to support the growth of an infectious agent. ...
Chagas disease
Xenodiagnosis involves feeding the blood to triatomine insects, then examining their feces for the parasite 30 to 60 days later ... T. cruzi parasites can be grown from blood samples by blood culture, xenodiagnosis, or by inoculating animals with the person's ...
List of MeSH codes (E05)
... xenodiagnosis MeSH E05.300.100.028 - administration, buccal MeSH E05.300.100.878 - administration, sublingual MeSH E05.300. ...