| Entry | T01012 |
| Org code | tcr |
| Name | Trypanosoma cruzi CL Brener |
| Category | Reference genome |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:353153 |
| Lineage | Eukaryota; ; Euglenozoa; Kinetoplastea; Trypanosomatida; Trypanosomatidae; Trypanosoma; Trypanosoma cruzi |
| Org group | Protists; Euglenozoa; Kinetoplasts |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
KEGG organisms: protists [BR:br08615] |
| Data source | RefSeq (Assembly: GCF_000209065.1 Scaffold) |
| Keywords | Human pathogen, Animal pathogen |
| Disease | H00358 Chagas disease |
| Comment | Host: Homo sapiens [GN:hsa] [TAX:9606]
Causes Chagas disease in humans.
Normally transmitted by reduviid bugs via the vector feces after a bug bite and also after blood transfusion.
Member of subgroup IIe. |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 19602 |
| Created | 2005 |
| Reference | PMID: 16020725 |
| Authors | El-Sayed NM, Myler PJ, Bartholomeu DC, Nilsson D, Aggarwal G, Tran AN, Ghedin E, Worthey EA, Delcher AL, Blandin G, et al. |
| Title | The genome sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi, etiologic agent of Chagas disease. |
| Journal | Science 309:409-15 (2005)
DOI: 10.1126/science.1112631 |
