Trypanosoma cruzi. The disease is widespread in Latin America where about 18 million
people were found to be infected and 90 million people at risk in the early 1990s. 2-4 The
natural infection is transmitted primarily by the contact of broken human skin with metacyclic
trypomastigotes present in contaminated feces of insect vectors of the family Reduviidae,
primarily those of the genera Triatoma, Panstrongylus, and Rhodnius. l-4 Human beings …