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)

Described a new parasite Dibothriocephalus taenioides 1945

With Marcos Fischman. Botriocefaliasis por um nuevo parasito (Diancyrobothrium taenioides). Contribución al estudio clinico y parasitológico de um caso de botriocefaliasis. Arch. Hosp. Israelita 6:89-94, 1949

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

Nueva reacción diagnostica para quiste hidatico. Sem. Med. 227:11, 1918

Notes on the use of filtered urine as the antigen of the Wassermann reaction. Sem. Med. 26:523, 1919

L’autoinfection est elle possible dans l’ankylostomiase. C.R. Soc. Biol. Paris 93:966-7, 1925

Demonstrated Bacigalupo phenomenon

La investigación de huevos de Taenia saginata en las matérias fecales de los portadores del parasita. Sem. Med. 38:1234-5, 1931

DESCRIBED PARASITES

Demodex caviae 1954 with Roveda

Dibothriocephalus taenioides 1945

Diphyllobothrium granaia 1948

Hymenolepis intermedius 1927

Spirochaeta uretritis 1926

Trypanosoma marplatensis with N. de La Plaza

HONOURS

Correspondent Member, Société de Pathologie Exotique (Paris) & Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (London)