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Trypanosomiasis vs Xenodiagnosis - What's the difference?

trypanosomiasis | xenodiagnosis |

As nouns the difference between trypanosomiasis and xenodiagnosis

is that trypanosomiasis is (disease) any of several diseases or infections caused by a trypanosome while xenodiagnosis is (medicine) diagnosis of an infectious disease (especially of trypanosomiasis) by exposure to a vector of that disease, incubating the vector and examining it for the presence of the disease.

trypanosomiasis

English

Noun

(trypanosomiases)
  • (disease) Any of several diseases or infections caused by a trypanosome.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 297:
  • *:Spotted fever, yaws, typhus and trypanosomiasis throve here.

    • See also

    *Chagas' disease *dourine *nagana *sleeping sickness *surra *tsetse disease *tsetse fly disease

    xenodiagnosis

    English

    Noun

    (xenodiagnoses)
  • (medicine) diagnosis of an infectious disease (especially of trypanosomiasis) by exposure to a vector of that disease, incubating the vector and examining it for the presence of the disease