Trypanosoma cruzi, a zoonotic kinetoplastid protozoan parasite, is the causative agent of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease). Having a very plastic, repetitive and complex genome, the parasite
Trypanosoma cruzi is the etiologic agent of Chagas disease, affecting millions of people in the Western hemisphere with a wide range of disease pathologies. T. cruzi Jose is being sequenced along with
Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease shows a marked genetic diversity divided into at least six Discrete Typing Units (DTUs). High intra DTU genetic variability has been observed i