Trypanosoma species

• Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease.
• Trypanosoma brucei complex

  = Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

  = Trypanosoma brucei rhodosiense

  = Trypanosoma brucei brucei (catles)
• Trypanosoma rangeli (Non-Pathogenic)
• VECTOR:


  = TRIATOMINE BUG or REDUVIID BUG (Kissing Bug)

  • vector for T. cruzi

  = TSE-TSE FLY

  • vector for T. brucei complex