Trypanosoma cruzi

Valeria Fabre, M.D.
Trypanosoma cruzi is a topic covered in the Johns Hopkins ABX Guide.

To view the entire topic, please or .

Official website of the Johns Hopkins Antibiotic (ABX), HIV, Diabetes, and Psychiatry Guides, powered by Unbound Medicine. Johns Hopkins Guide App for iOS, iPhone, iPad, and Android included. Explore these free sample topics:

-- The first section of this topic is shown below --

MICROBIOLOGY

  • Protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi causes American trypanosomiasis (Chagas’ disease).
  • Transmitted in rural Latin America when feces of infected "kissing bug" (species Rhodnius or triatomine bug, [Fig 1]) inoculated through an insect bite wound or mucous membrane exposure.
  • Also present in zoonotic reservoirs/insect vectors in the southern U.S. but transmission to humans is rare.

-- To view the remaining sections of this topic, please or --

MICROBIOLOGY

  • Protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi causes American trypanosomiasis (Chagas’ disease).
  • Transmitted in rural Latin America when feces of infected "kissing bug" (species Rhodnius or triatomine bug, [Fig 1]) inoculated through an insect bite wound or mucous membrane exposure.
  • Also present in zoonotic reservoirs/insect vectors in the southern U.S. but transmission to humans is rare.

There's more to see -- the rest of this topic is available only to subscribers.

Last updated: July 4, 2022