Trypanosoma Cruzi

Trypanosoma cruzi is a parasitic protozoan that is the causative agent of chagas disease american trypanosomiasis.

Trypanosoma cruzi. Other forms of trypanosomiasis african trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness are. Chagas disease in humans dourine and surra in horses and a brucellosis like disease in cattle. It causes chagas disease characterized by dilated. Trypanosoma cruzi is a species of parasitic protozoan that is transmitted via the deposition of feces on the patient s skin by the reduviid bug also called the kissing bug followed by a nearby painless bite and subsequent scratching of the area by the patient that causes deeper penetration of the feces and thereby the parasite.

Trypanosoma cruzi the causative agent of chagas disease is treated with nifurtimox a nitrofuran derivative. This behaviour causes disease or the likelihood of disease that varies with the organism. Trypanosoma cruzi is a species of parasitic euglenoids amongst the protozoa the trypanosomes characteristically bore tissue in another organism and feed on blood primarily and also lymph. Cruzi infection is also referred to as american.

It is caused by the parasite trypanosoma cruzi which is transmitted to animals and people by insect vectors and is found only in the americas mainly in rural areas of latin america where poverty is widespread chagas disease t. Currently six distinct lineages of t. Cruzi is a kinetoplast eukaryotic cell that is associated with causing the often fatal chagas disease which spreads through insects 3. Chagas disease is named after the brazilian physician carlos chagas who discovered the disease in 1909.

Cruzi are classified into discrete typing units tci vi which vary in their geographic occurrence host specificity and pathogenicity. It is given orally and results in the production of activated forms of oxygen which are lethal to the parasite.