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A pseudocyst of Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes.
A pseudocyst of Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes in skeletal muscle (mouse, x500, hematoxylin and eosin). The year 2009 is the centenary of the discovery of T. cruzi and Chagas disease by Carlos Chagas. T. cruzi, a zoonotic parasite, is remarkably genetically diverse. In this issue Llewellyn et al. (doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000510) apply microsatellite analysis to describe population structure in T. cruzi IIc, a widely distributed lineage of T. cruzi associated with a terrestrial ecological niche and the armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, as a principal host—coincidentally the first wild reservoir identified by Chagas.
Image Credit: M. D. Lewis and M. A. Miles; histology: L. Ethridge
Citation: (2009) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 3(9) September 2009. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 3(9): ev03.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v03.i09
Published: September 29, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 M. D. Lewis et al. . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A pseudocyst of Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes in skeletal muscle (mouse, x500, hematoxylin and eosin). The year 2009 is the centenary of the discovery of T. cruzi and Chagas disease by Carlos Chagas. T. cruzi, a zoonotic parasite, is remarkably genetically diverse. In this issue Llewellyn et al. (doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000510) apply microsatellite analysis to describe population structure in T. cruzi IIc, a widely distributed lineage of T. cruzi associated with a terrestrial ecological niche and the armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, as a principal host—coincidentally the first wild reservoir identified by Chagas.
Image Credit: M. D. Lewis and M. A. Miles; histology: L. Ethridge