Of the currently known 140 species in the family Reduviidae, subfamily Triatominae, those
which are most important as vectors of the aetiologic agent of Chagas disease …

Triatomines are hematophagous insects that feed on the blood of vertebrates from different
taxa, but can occasionally also take fluids from invertebrate hosts, including other insects …

Background Trypanosoma cruzi has been classified into six Discrete Typing Units (DTUs),
designated as TcI–TcVI. In order to effectively use this standardized nomenclature, a …

Background Bat trypanosomes have been implicated in the evolutionary history of the T.
cruzi clade, which comprises species from a wide geographic and host range in South …

Background Trypanosoma rangeli is a hemoflagellate protozoan parasite infecting humans
and other wild and domestic mammals across Central and South America. It does not cause …

To make reliable interpretations about evolutionary relationships between Trypanosoma
rangeli lineages and their insect vectors (triatomine bugs of the genus Rhodnius) and, thus …

Trypanosoma rangeli infects several mammalian orders but has never confidently been
described in Chiroptera, which are commonly parasitized by many trypanosome species …

Background Trypanosoma rangeli is a protozoan that infects a variety of mammalian hosts,
including humans. Its main insect vector is Rhodnius prolixus and is found in several Latin …

In this book chapter, we discuss the interactions between triatomines, two heteroxenous
trypanosomatids—Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease, and …

Phylogenetic studies of Trypanosoma cruzi have identified the existence of two groups: T.
cruzi I and T. cruzi II. There are aspects that still remain unknown about the genetic …