Diversity and Epidemiology of Bat Trypanosomes: A One Health Perspective

Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses

(2021) Alexei Y. Kostygov et al.   Open Biology

A new subspecies of Trypanosoma cyclops found in the Australian terrestrial leech Chtonobdella bilineata

(2021) John Ellis et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Trypanosoma rangeli Genetic, Mammalian Hosts, and Geographical Diversity from Five Brazilian Biomes

(2021) Maria Augusta Dario et al.   Pathogens

The outbreak of COVID-19

(2020) Yi-Chi Wu et al.   Journal of the Chinese Medical Association

Molecular identification of the Trypanosoma (Herpetosoma) lewisi clade in black rats (Rattus rattus) from Australia

(2020) Siobhon L. Egan et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Identification of blood-feeding sources in Panstrongylus, Psammolestes, Rhodnius and Triatoma using amplicon-based next-generation sequencing

(2020) Luisa M. Arias-Giraldo et al.   Parasites & Vectors

First report of Trypanosoma dionisii (Trypanosomatidae) identified in Australia

(2020) Jill M. Austen et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Isolation and partial characterisation of a novel Trypanosoma from the tick Ixodes ricinus

(2020) Lisa Luu et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Origin and cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China

(2020) Alice Latinne et al.   Nature Communications

Increased Trypanosoma spp. richness and prevalence of haemoparasite co-infection following translocation

(2019) Amy S. Northover et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Systematic review and meta-analysis on the global distribution, host range, and prevalence of Trypanosoma evansi

(2019) Weldegebrial G. Aregawi et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Trypanosoma dionisii in insectivorous bats from northern China

(2019) Li-Jun Wang et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Trypanosoma madeirae sp. n.: A species of the clade T. cruzi associated with the neotropical common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus

(2019) Juliana H.S. Barros et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

Uncovering Trypanosoma spp. diversity of wild mammals by the use of DNA from blood clots

(2019) Marina Silva Rodrigues et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

Chagas Disease: From Discovery to a Worldwide Health Problem

(2019) Kárita Cláudia Freitas Lidani et al.   Frontiers in Public Health

Bat Flies and Their Microparasites: Current Knowledge and Distribution

(2019) Tamara Szentiványi et al.   Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Demographic and environmental drivers of metagenomic viral diversity in vampire bats

(2019) Laura M. Bergner et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Sequence analyses at mitochondrial and nuclear loci reveal a novel Theileria sp. and aid in the phylogenetic resolution of piroplasms from Australian marsupials and ticks

(2019) Amanda D. Barbosa et al.   PLoS One

Out of Africa: The origins of the protozoan blood parasites of the Trypanosoma cruzi clade found in bats from Africa

(2019) L. Clément et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

First Report of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Salivary Gland of Bats from the Peruvian Amazon

(2018) Fredy E. Villena et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Trypanosoma rangeli is phylogenetically closer to Old World trypanosomes than to Trypanosoma cruzi

(2018) Oneida Espinosa-Álvarez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Recent advances in trypanosomatid research: genome organization, expression, metabolism, taxonomy and evolution

(2018) Dmitri A. Maslov et al.   PARASITOLOGY

First record of Trypanosoma dionisii of the T. cruzi clade from the Eastern bent-winged bat (Miniopterus fuliginosus) in the Far East

(2018) Eliakunda Mafie et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Trypanosomatids Are Much More than Just Trypanosomes: Clues from the Expanded Family Tree

(2018) Julius Lukeš et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Next generation sequencing reveals widespread trypanosome diversity and polyparasitism in marsupials from Western Australia

(2018) Crystal Cooper et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

Diversity and evolution of anuran trypanosomes: insights from the study of European species

(2018) Viktoria V. Spodareva et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Trypanosoma cruzi transmission in the wild and its most important reservoir hosts in Brazil

(2018) Ana Maria Jansen et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Genomic comparison of Trypanosoma conorhini and Trypanosoma rangeli to Trypanosoma cruzi strains of high and low virulence

(2018) Katie R Bradwell et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Trypomastigote Small Surface Antigen from Trypanosoma cruzi Improves Treatment Evaluation and Diagnosis in Pediatric Chagas Disease

(2017) Virginia Balouz et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Trypanosoma sp. diversity in Amazonian bats (Chiroptera; Mammalia) from Acre State, Brazil

(2017) Francisco C.B. dos Santos et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Increased genetic diversity and prevalence of co-infection with Trypanosoma spp. in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) and their ticks identified using next-generation sequencing (NGS)

(2017) Amanda D. Barbosa et al.   PLoS One

Small subunit ribosomal metabarcoding reveals extraordinary trypanosomatid diversity in Brazilian bats

(2017) Maria Augusta Dario et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

High Trypanosoma spp. diversity is maintained by bats and triatomines in Espírito Santo state, Brazil

(2017) Maria Augusta Dario et al.   PLoS One

Disease: Poverty and pathogens

(2016) Michael Eisenstein   NATURE

Ecological scenario and Trypanosoma cruzi DTU characterization of a fatal acute Chagas disease case transmitted orally (Espírito Santo state, Brazil)

(2016) Maria Augusta Dario et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Molecular identification of different trypanosome species and subspecies in tsetse flies of northern Nigeria

(2016) Clement Isaac et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Molecular characterization of native Australian trypanosomes in quokka (Setonix brachyurus) populations from Western Australia

(2016) Jill M. Austen et al.   PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

First report of Trypanosoma vegrandis in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)

(2016) Amanda Barbosa et al.   PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Morphological and Phylogenetic Description of Trypanosoma noyesi sp. nov.: An Australian Wildlife Trypanosome within the T. cruzi Clade

(2016) Adriana Botero et al.   PROTIST

Trypanosoma teixeirae: A new species belonging to the T. cruzi clade causing trypanosomosis in an Australian little red flying fox ( Pteropus scapulatus )

(2016) Amanda D. Barbosa et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Chagas' Disease as a Foodborne Illness

(2016) KAREN SIGNORI PEREIRA et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD PROTECTION

Reservoir host competence and the role of domestic and commensal hosts in the transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi

(2015) Ricardo E. Gürtler et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Ecological diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission in the Amazon basin. The main scenaries in the Brazilian Amazon

(2015) J.R. Coura et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Bed Bugs (Cimex lectularius) as Vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi

(2015) Renzo Salazar et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

New insights into the evolution of the Trypanosoma cruzi clade provided by a new trypanosome species tightly linked to Neotropical Pteronotus bats and related to an Australian lineage of trypanosomes

(2015) Luciana Lima et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Investigation of the morphological diversity of the potentially zoonotic Trypanosoma copemani in quokkas and Gilbert's potoroos

(2015) JILL M. AUSTEN et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Revisiting Trypanosoma rangeli Transmission Involving Susceptible and Non-Susceptible Hosts

(2015) Luciana de Lima Ferreira et al.   PLoS One

New Approaches to Systematics of Trypanosomatidae: Criteria for Taxonomic (Re)description

(2015) Jan Votýpka et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Trypanosomes of Australian Mammals: Knowledge Gaps Regarding Transmission and Biosecurity

(2015) Craig K. Thompson et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

High prevalence of Trypanosoma vegrandis in bats from Western Australia

(2015) Jill M. Austen et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Social Grooming in Bats: Are Vampire Bats Exceptional?

(2015) Gerald Carter et al.   PLoS One

High prevalence of trypanosome co-infections in freshwater fishes

(2014) Anastasiia Grybchuk-Ieremenko et al.   FOLIA PARASITOLOGICA

From ancient to contemporary molecular eco-epidemiology of Chagas disease in the Americas

(2014) Felipe Guhl et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Genotyping of Trypanosoma cruzi in a hyper-endemic area of Colombia reveals an overlap among domestic and sylvatic cycles of Chagas disease

(2014) Ana Mejía-Jaramillo et al.   Parasites & Vectors

The history of Chagas disease

(2014) Dietmar Steverding   Parasites & Vectors

High Local Diversity of Trypanosoma in a Common Bat Species, and Implications for the Biogeography and Taxonomy of the T. cruzi Clade

(2014) Veronika M. Cottontail et al.   PLoS One

Chagas disease: the challenge of polyparasitism?

(2014) Catherine J. Perez et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Trypanosome species in neo-tropical bats: Biological, evolutionary and epidemiological implications

(2013) Juan David Ramírez et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Trypanosoma livingstonei: a new species from African bats supports the bat seeding hypothesis for the Trypanosoma cruzi clade

(2013) Luciana Lima et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Morphological polymorphism of Trypanosoma copemani and description of the genetically diverse T. vegrandis sp. nov. from the critically endangered Australian potoroid, the brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata (Gray, 1837))

(2013) Craig K Thompson et al.   Parasites & Vectors

First Report of HumanTrypanosoma cruziInfection Attributed to TcBat Genotype

(2013) J. D. Ramírez et al.   Zoonoses and Public Health

Trypanosoma evansiand Surra: A Review and Perspectives on Transmission, Epidemiology and Control, Impact, and Zoonotic Aspects

(2013) Marc Desquesnes et al.   Biomed Research International

Comparative genomic analysis of human infective Trypanosoma cruzi lineages with the bat-restricted subspecies T. cruzi marinkellei

(2012) Oscar Franzén et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Oral Transmission of Chagas Disease

(2012) M. A. Shikanai-Yasuda et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

TcBat a bat-exclusive lineage of Trypanosoma cruzi in the Panama Canal Zone, with comments on its classification and the use of the 18S rRNA gene for lineage identification

(2012) C. Miguel Pinto et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Parasites reveal movement of bats between the New and Old Worlds

(2012) Patrick B. Hamilton et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Parasite-mediated interactions within the insect vector: Trypanosoma rangeli strategies

(2012) Eloi S Garcia et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Elimination of Rhodnius prolixus in Central America

(2012) Ken Hashimoto et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Phylogenetic Analysis of Bolivian Bat Trypanosomes of the Subgenus Schizotrypanum Based on Cytochrome b Sequence and Minicircle Analyses

(2012) Lineth García et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary Insights from Bat Trypanosomes: Morphological, Developmental and Phylogenetic Evidence of a New Species, Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) erneyi sp. nov., in African Bats Closely Related to Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi and Allied Species

(2012) Luciana Lima et al.   PROTIST

Current understanding of immunity to Trypanosoma cruzi infection and pathogenesis of Chagas disease

(2012) Fabiana S. Machado et al.   Seminars in Immunopathology

The evolution of Trypanosoma cruzi: the ‘bat seeding’ hypothesis

(2012) Patrick B. Hamilton et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Ecology of Zoonotic Infectious Diseases in Bats: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

(2012) D. T. S. Hayman et al.   Zoonoses and Public Health

The revised Trypanosoma cruzi subspecific nomenclature: Rationale, epidemiological relevance and research applications

(2011) Bianca Zingales et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Vector of Trypanosoma copemani identified as Ixodes sp.

(2011) J. M. AUSTEN et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Recent, Independent and Anthropogenic Origins of Trypanosoma cruzi Hybrids

(2011) Michael D. Lewis et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Emerging diseases in Chiroptera: why bats?

(2010) G. Wibbelt et al.   Biology Letters

Correlates of Viral Richness in Bats (Order Chiroptera)

(2010) Amy S. Turmelle et al.   EcoHealth

Blood protozoa of insectivores, bats and primates in Central Africa*

(2010) I. F. Keymer   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Novel trypanosome Trypanosoma gilletti sp. (Euglenozoa: Trypanosomatidae) and the extension of the host range of Trypanosoma copemani to include the koala ( Phascolarctos cinereus)

(2010) L. M. McINNES et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Unique behavior of Trypanosoma dionisii interacting with mammalian cells: Invasion, intracellular growth, and nuclear localization

(2009) Miriam Pires de Castro Oliveira et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Genotyping of Trypanosoma cruzi: Systematic Selection of Assays Allowing Rapid and Accurate Discrimination of All Known Lineages

(2009) Michael D. Lewis et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Prevalence and Vertical Transmission ofTrypanosoma cruziInfection among Pregnant Latin American Women Attending 2 Maternity Clinics in Barcelona, Spain

(2009) José Muñoz et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Phylogeographical, ecological and biological patterns shown by nuclear (ssrRNA and gGAPDH) and mitochondrial (Cyt b) genes of trypanosomes of the subgenus Schizotrypanum parasitic in Brazilian bats

(2009) Manzelio Cavazzana et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Selective recovery of the cultivation-prone components from mixed trypanosomatid infections: a case of several novel species isolated from Neotropical Heteroptera

(2009) V. Y. Yurchenko et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

A new genotype of Trypanosoma cruzi associated with bats evidenced by phylogenetic analyses using SSU rDNA, cytochrome b and Histone H2B genes and genotyping based on ITS1 rDNA

(2009) A. MARCILI et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Morphological and molecular characterization of Trypanosoma copemani n. sp. (Trypanosomatidae) isolated from Gilbert's potoroo (Potorous gilbertii) and quokka (Setonix brachyurus)

(2009) J. M. AUSTEN et al.   PARASITOLOGY

The molecular epidemiology and phylogeography of Trypanosoma cruzi and parallel research on Leishmania: looking back and to the future

(2009) M. A. MILES et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Mechanisms Controlling Anaemia in Trypanosoma congolense Infected Mice

(2009) Harry A. Noyes et al.   PLoS One

Atypical human trypanosomiasis: a neglected disease or just an unlucky accident?

(2009) Zhao-Rong Lun et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Trypanosoma cruzi: adaptation to its vectors and its hosts

(2009) François Noireau et al.   VETERINARY RESEARCH

Host-seeking: How triatomines acquire and make use of information to find blood

(2008) Pablo G. Guerenstein et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Trypanosoma cruzi congenital transmission in wild bats

(2008) Néstor Añez et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Chagas Heart Disease Pathogenesis: One Mechanism or Many?

(2008) Kevin Bonney et al.   CURRENT MOLECULAR MEDICINE

The health impact of polyparasitism in humans: are we under-estimating the burden of parasitic diseases?

(2008) R. PULLAN et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Trypanosoma cruzi (kinetoplastida, Trypanosomatidae) genotypes in neotropical bats in Brazil

(2008) Cristiane Varella Lisboa et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Chagas disease: an emerging food-borne entity?

(2008) Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales   Journal of Infection in Developing Countries