Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease, presents considerable
heterogeneity between isolated populations within the wild and domestic cycles. By using …

Abstract Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastea: Trypanosomatidae) infects all tissues of its
hosts, which along with humans, include hundreds of mammalian species in the Americas …

Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease (ChD), exhibits remarkable biological and
genetic diversity, along with eco-epidemiological complexity. In order to facilitate …

Aiming to better understand the ecological aspects of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission
cycles, wild carnivores, small mammals and dogs were examined for T. cruzi infection in the …

Background Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease in humans, has a vast
reservoir of mammalian hosts in the Americas, and is classified into six genetic lineages, TcI …

Background Chagas disease is an emergent tropical disease in the Brazilian Amazon
Region, with an increasing number of cases in recent decades. In this region, the sylvatic …

In order to better comprehend the putative association between genotype Trypanosoma
cruzi II and primates, an evaluation of the infection in free ranging primates and specimens …

Background Molecular epidemiology at the community level has an important guiding role in
zoonotic disease control programmes where genetic markers are suitably variable to …

Previous studies on infection of Trypanosoma cruzi in the Poço das Antas Biological
Reserve population of wild free-ranging Leontopithecus rosalia have shown the presence of …

Maps are a useful tool that permits correlation of landscapes with hotspots of parasite
transmission. Here, they were used as a tool for geovisualization to evaluate variables …