Biology:Trypanosoma rangeli

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Short description: Species of flagellated protist

Trypanosoma rangeli
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Euglenozoa
Class: Kinetoplastea
Order: Trypanosomatida
Family: Trypanosomatidae
Genus: Trypanosoma
Species:
T. rangeli
Binomial name
Trypanosoma rangeli
Tejera, 1920

Trypanosoma rangeli is a species of hemoflagellate excavate parasites of the genus Trypanosoma. Although infecting a variety of mammalian species in a wide geographical area in Central and South America, this parasite is considered 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. "Different serological cross-reactivity of Trypanosoma rangeli forms in Trypanosoma cruzi-infected patients sera". Parasit Vectors 1 (1): 20. 2008. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-1-20. PMID 18611261. 
  3. "Genome of the avirulent human-infective trypanosome--Trypanosoma rangeli". PLOS Negl Trop Dis 8 (9): e3176. Sep 2014. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003176. PMID 25233456. 
  4. "Vaccination with Trypanosoma rangeli reduces the infectiousness of dogs experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi". Vaccine 25 (19): 3855–8. May 2007. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.01.114. PMID 17349724. 
  5. "Vaccination with epimastigotes of different strains of Trypanosoma rangeli protects mice against Trypanosoma cruzi infection". Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 103 (4): 370–4. June 2008. doi:10.1590/S0074-02762008000400010. PMID 18660992. 

Bibliography

Wikidata ☰ Q7848580 entry