Biography
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