Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Jan 1976)

Novo procedimento de xenodiagnóstico na forma crônica da doença de Chagas New xenodiagnostic procedure in chronic Chagas' disease

  • Saulo P. Almeida,
  • Ítalo A. Sherlock,
  • E. Edvaldo Fahel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02761976000300007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 74, no. 3-4
pp. 285 – 287

Abstract

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Xenodiagnósticos feitos com Triatoma infestans durante 24 horas consecutivas, a intervalos de duas horas, demonstraram o Trypanosoma cruzi em 9 de 10 pacientes suspeitos de infecção chagástica crônica.Positive xenodiagnostic was obtained in 9 out of 10 chronic Chagas' disease patients on which triatoma infestans were allowed to feed at 2hr intervals along a period of 24hr.