Review onTrypanosoma cruzi: Host Cell Interaction
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- 29 July 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in International Journal of Cell Biology
- Vol. 2010, 1-18
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/295394
Abstract
Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas' disease, which affects a large number of individuals in Central and South America, is transmitted to vertebrate hosts by blood-sucking insects. This protozoan is an obligate intracellular parasite. The infective forms of the parasite are metacyclic and bloodstream trypomastigote and amastigote. Metacyclic trypomastigotes are released with the feces of the insect while amastigotes and bloodstream trypomastigotes are released from the infected host cells of the vertebrate host after a complex intracellular life cycle. The recognition between parasite and mammalian host cell involves numerous molecules present in both cell types. Here, we present a brief review of the interaction betweenTrypanosoma cruziand its host cells, mainly emphasizing the mechanisms and molecules that participate in theT. cruziinvasion process of the mammalian cells.Keywords
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