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SUBMITTER: Marcili A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4890949 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marcili Arlei A da Costa Andrea P AP Soares Herbert S HS Acosta Igor C L IC de Lima Julia T R JT Minervino Antonio H H AH Gennari Solange M SM
ISRN parasitology 20130813
In Crocodylidae family three trypanosomes species were described, T. grayi in African crocodilian and T. cecili and Trypanosoma sp. in Caimans species from Brazil. T. grayi was transmitted by tsetse flies and the vector of Brazilian caimans trypanosomes is unknown. We characterized first Brazilian trypanosome isolated in spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) from Mato Grosso State in Brazil. Morphological findings in epimastigotes forms from axenic culture showed high similarity with Trypanosoma ...[more]