Juan D. M. Bacigalupo Brignole, Argentine parasitologist (Buenos Aires 29 December 1891 – Buenos Aires 24 August 1956)

Authored 207 works

First use of microscopic examination of probing extracted duodenal fluid for diagnosis of fascioliasis

With A.J. Bengolea & C. Velasco Suarez. Distomatosis por Fasciola hepatica. Arch. Argent. Enferm. Apar. Diges. Nutr. (1927)

Demonstrated that Hymenolepis nana could display two types of life evolution presenting an indirect larval form (1928)

With A. Palacios Costa. Nueva espiroquetosis vaginal provocada por la Espiroqueta rawsoni, n.sp. Rev. Med. Trop. Parasitol. 4(6):319-21, 1938 (Spirochaeta rawsoni)

With E. Rivero. Vaginal sphincter, new organ of Echinococcus granulosus Batsch. J. Parasitol. 35(5):547, 1948

Developed Bacigalupo-Rivero centrifugation method for parasitological study of stool

Metodo pratico para el diagnostico de la teniasis por Taenia saginata. (A simple method for teniasis diagnosis). Sem. Med. 47(30): 184-5, 1940

Eine neue behandlungsmethode der tuberkulosen meningitis. Munch. Med. Wchnschr. 62:222-3, 1915

Eponym of Bacigalupo phenomenon

DESCRIBED PARASITES

Demodex caviae 1954 with Roveda

Diphyllobothrium granaia 1948

Hymenolepis intermedius 1927

Spirochaeta uretritis 1926

Trypanosoma marplatensis with N. de La Plaza