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Investigative Techniques > Clinical Laboratory Techniques > Microbiological Techniques > Xenodiagnosis
Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Clinical Laboratory Techniques > Microbiological Techniques > Xenodiagnosis

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Xenodiagnosis  

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  • permitted with parasitic diseases as well as microbial infections

Scope note

  • A method for diagnosing a disease in one organism by inoculating the putative causative organism in a second animal of a different species. It has been used for the detection of parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi and Trichinella spiralis) when peripheral blood smears are negative. (Segen, Current Med Talk, 1995)

History note

  • 2000

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020525

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