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Trypanosama cruzi - Coggle Diagram
Trypanosama cruzi
life cycle
kissing bugs (vector)
infected triatomine insect-- takes a blood meal & releases trypomastigotes
will invade new cells
enter the host through the wound or through intact mucosal membranes
infect cells from a variety tissues
when the parasites enter another cell or are ingested by another vector
laboratory diagnosis
microscopic examination
thin & thick blood smears
giemsa (visualization of parasites)
buffy coat
isolation
inoculation
culture in specialized media
xenodiagnosis
immunodiagnosis
determine the patient is infected or not
indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA)
a suspension of epimastogotes
morphology
trypomastigote
present in blood -- long slender/ shorty & stumpy
epimastigote
similar to trypomastigote -- kinetoplast located anterior to the nucleus
amastigote
present in tissue