"Xenodiagnosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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)
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D020525
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.225.875.985 E01.370.985 E05.200.875.985
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