Trypanosoma rangeli

Trypanosoma rangeli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukarya
Kingdom:	Protista
Phylum:	Euglenozoa
Class:	Kinetoplastida
Order:	Trypanosomatida
Genus:	Trypanosoma
Species:	T. rangeli
Binomial name
Trypanosoma rangeli Tejera, 1920

Trypanosoma rangeli is a hemoflagellate protozoan parasite species of the genus Trypanosoma. Although infecting a variety of mammalian species in a wide geographical area in Central an South America, this parasite is considered as non-pathogenic to these hosts. T. rangeli is transmitted by bite of infected triatomine bugs of the Reduviidae family, commonly known as barbeiro, winchuka^[1] (vinchuca), chinche, pito ou chupão.^[2]

The genome was published in september 2014.^[3]

Occurring in sympatry with Trypanosoma cruzi , the etiological agent of Chagas disease, in wide geographical areas in the Americas, T. rangeli shares hosts, vectors and a large amount of its antigenic coat T. cruzi leading to misdiagnosis of Chagas disease.^[4][5]

References

1. Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
2. de Moraes MH, Guarneri AA, Girardi FP, et al. (2008). "Different serological cross-reactivity of Trypanosoma rangeli forms in Trypanosoma cruzi-infected patients sera". Parasit Vectors 1 (1): 20. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-1-20. PMC 2475519. PMID 18611261.
3. Stoco PH, et al. (Sep 2014). "Genome of the avirulent human-infective trypanosome--Trypanosoma rangeli.". PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 8 (9): e3176. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003176. PMID 25233456.
4. Basso B, Castro I, Introini V, Gil P, Truyens C, Moretti E (May 2007). "Vaccination with Trypanosoma rangeli reduces the infectiousness of dogs experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi". Vaccine 25 (19): 3855–8. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.01.114. PMID 17349724.
5. Basso B, Moretti E, Fretes R (June 2008). "Vaccination with epimastigotes of different strains of Trypanosoma rangeli protects mice against Trypanosoma cruzi infection". Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 103 (4): 370–4. doi:10.1590/S0074-02762008000400010. PMID 18660992.

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