Over the last 30 years, concomitant with successful transnational disease control programs
across Latin America, Chagas disease has expanded from a neglected, endemic parasitic …

Acute Trypanosoma cruzi infections can be asymptomatic, but chronically infected
individuals can die of Chagas' disease. The transfer of the parasite mitochondrial kinetoplast …

The elimination of disease-causing microbes from the food supply is a primary goal and this
review deals with the overall techniques available for detection of food-borne pathogens …

Intracellular parasitism has arisen only a few times during the long ancestry of protozoan
parasites including in diverse groups such as microsporidians, kinetoplastids, and …

Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, has a variable clinical
course, ranging from symptomless infection to severe chronic disease with cardiovascular or …

The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi infects up to 20 million people in Latin America,
and the resulting disease (Chagas' disease) is a leading cause of heart disease and death …

Chagas disease is a debilitating human illness caused by infection with the protozoan
Trypanosoma cruzi. A capacity to invade and replicate within many different cell types is a …

We have previously shown that a low-stringency single-specific primer–polymerase chain
reaction (LSSP-PCR) is a highly sensitive and reproducible technique for the genetic …

Background—The pathogenesis of myocarditis that occurs in Trypanosoma cruzi–infected
mice is still poorly understood. Therefore, it is important to know the mediators that trigger …

This paper aims to review the applications of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the
detection and identification of trypanosomes in animals. The diagnosis of trypanosomes …