Species

Trypanosoma cruzi Bug2148

[ Euglenozoa | Kinetoplastida | Trypanosomatidae | . . .
. . . | Trypanosomatidae | Trypanosoma | Schizotrypanum ]

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Taxonomy: Eukaryota | Euglenozoa | Kinetoplastida | Trypanosomatidae | Trypanosoma | Schizotrypanum Comment: Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan parasite, causes American Trypanosomiasis or Chagas' disease. The disease is transmitted to humans through the feces of infected bloodsucking insects in endemic areas of Latin America, or occasionally by nonvectorial mechanisms, such as blood transfusion. Go to NCBI Taxonomy (5693) Encyclopedia of life Wikipedia Project: National Center for Biotechnology Information: NCBI Protozoa genomes Genome files National Center for Biotechnology Information Type Version Date Compl Cov GC % Size (Mbp) Contigs CGR Illegal Chars N50 (kbp) Acc File Seq info Contigs v 1.0.0 2017-07-07 68 51.3 55.2 929 - - 200 -