Trypanosomatids are ancient parasitic eukaryotes that still maintain prokaryotic
characteristics. Trypanosoma cruzi, a primarily wild mammal parasite, infected humans …

Trypanosoma cruzi, the protozoan causative of Chagas disease (ChD), exhibits striking
genetic and phenotypic intraspecific diversity, along with ecoepidemiological complexity …

Background The study of the ecology of Trypanosoma cruzi is challenging due to its extreme
adaptive plasticity, resulting in the parasitism of hundreds of mammal species and dozens of …

Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease, is a highly polymorphic species,
subdivided into 6 main evolutionary lineages or near-clades (formerly discrete typing units …

More than 100 years since the first description of Chagas Disease and with over 29,000 new
cases annually due to vector transmission (in 2010), American Trypanosomiasis remains a …

The predominant clonal evolution (PCE) model of pathogenic microorganisms postulates
that the impact of genetic recombination in those pathogens' natural populations is not …

Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease, is a protozoan parasite usually
transmitted by triatomines. As the parasite can infect all mammals and the vectors can be …

Trypanosoma cruzi, the protozoan parasite causative agent of Chagas disease, affects
about seven million people worldwide, representing a major global public health concern …

Acute Chagas disease (ACD) caused by Trypanosoma cruzi has emerged as a major food-
borne disease in Brazilian Amazonia. For the first time, we characterized an outbreak of …

Analysis of genetic polymorphism is a powerful tool for epidemiological surveillance and
research. Powerful inference from pathogen genetic variation, however, is often restrained …