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Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. Säo Paulo
; 43(2): 113-115, Mar.-Apr. 2001. tab
Article
in English
| LILACS
| ID: lil-298586
ABSTRACT
Trypanosoma cruzi parasitemia observed in immunocompromised patients (transplant or positive HIV) occurred more frequently by the artificial xenodiagnosis method (10/38) compared with hemoculture (2/38), given the same quantity of blood. Other ways of diagnosis, like mice inoculation (5/38), QBC and buffy coat (2/38), were evaluated also. This result showed the importance of the artificial xenodiagnosis. The other techniques increased only one more patient positive