Trypanosoma cruzi present one of the most complex parasite genomes sequenced to date. Among its features are 600-kb-long repetitive multigene families' clusters, hybrid strains, and …
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods are low-cost high-throughput technologies that produce thousands to millions of sequence reads. Despite the high number of raw sequence …
Chagas disease is a complex illness caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi displaying highly diverse clinical outcomes. In this sense, the genome sequence elucidation …
Although the genome of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, was first made available in 2005, with additional strains reported later, the intrinsic genome …
JL Ramirez - Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020 - mdpi.com
On 15 July 2020 was the 15th anniversary of the Science Magazine issue that reported three trypanosomatid genomes, namely Leishmania major, Trypanosoma brucei, and …
Trypanosoma cruzi, a zoonotic kinetoplastid protozoan parasite, is the causative agent of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease). Having a very plastic, repetitive and complex …
O Franzen, S Ochaya, E Sherwood… - PLoS neglected …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, which affects more than 9 million people in Latin America. We have generated a draft genome sequence of the TcI …
C Herrera, A Majeau, P Didier… - Transactions of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Trypanosoma cruzi is a zoonotic pathogen of increasing relevance in the USA, with a growing number of autochthonous cases identified in recent years. The identification …
H Pronovost, AC Peterson, BG Chavez, MJ Blum… - Journal of Microbiology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background/purpose The parasitic protozoa Trypanosoma cruzi, is widely distributed throughout the Americas. We explored the nature of T. cruzi infection in small rodents from …