A case report of Chagas disease in acute phase diagnosed by xenodiagnosis.
Chagas disease is a serious problem of parasitic disease in the American continent, this zoonosis is caused by the flagellated protozoan known as Trypanosoma cruzi and transmitted through trypomastigotes present in the blood of sick hosts or in the faeces of the triatomines. Metacyclic trypomastigotes were detected in the faeca material of Triatoma pallidepennis maintained in the laboratory after the xenodiagnosis study performed on a patient with suspected Chagas disease, which allowed to administer treatment in a timely manner in the acute phase of this disease.
['Sánchez-Vega|José Trinidad|JT|', 'Almanza-Mackintoy|Angélica|A|', 'Luna-Santillán|Alejandra Victoria|AV|', 'De La Sancha-Solares|Tania|T|']
D000208:Acute Disease D000328:Adult D000818:Animals D014355:Chagas Disease D005243:Feces D005260:Female D006801:Humans D007303:Insect Vectors D008800:Mexico D014224:Triatoma D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi D020525:Xenodiagnosis D015047:Zoonoses
Chagas disease Xenodiagnosis Trypanosoma cruzi