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Trypanosoma - Coggle Diagram

- - - - both humans and animals as reservoir hosts. The animal reservoirs include domestic cats and dogs and wild species such as the armadillo, raccoon, and rat
  - - - Chagas' disease consists of facial edema and a nodule (chagoma) near the bite, coupled with fever, lymphadenopathy, and hepatosplenomegaly.
    - - chronic form with myocarditis and megacolon. Death from chronic Chagas' disease is usually due to cardiac arrhythmias and failure.
  - - - Specimen
        
        Blood , Bone Marrow Aspirate , Muscle Biopsy ,
        CSF
        
        enzyme-linked immunoassays (EIAs), indirect immunofluorescence assays, and indirect hemagglutination assays (IHAs)
        
        Staining
        
        methylene blue (also a vital dye)
        
        Treatment
        
        benznidazole and nifurtimox.
        
        Prevention
        
        Avoid sleeping in a mud, thatch or adobe house.
- - - - Treatment
        
        nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) or fexinidazole
    - - It's a short-term (acute) illness that may last several weeks to months.
  - - - Glossina palpalis
        Glossina morsitans
  - - - Lymphadenopathy , hepatosplenomegaly,sleepiness,parasitaemia .
  - - - blood, serum, plasma, saliva, and urine. In Cases, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
        
        Seriological
        
        ELISA, CATT, IFA, immunology - PCR, LAMP ,FISH