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xenodiagnosis
(zen″o-di″әg-no´sis)
diagnosis by means of finding, in the feces of clean laboratory-bred bugs fed on the patient, infective forms of the organism
causing a disease, such as in early stages of Chagas disease.
diagnosis of trichinosis by taking meat suspected of being infected with Trichinella, feeding it to a laboratory rat or mouse, and then examining the animal for the parasite. adj., xenodiagnos´tic, adj.
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