Habitat or site of infection In Trypanosoma cruzi : blood & tissue especially cardiac muscle

Final host of Trypanosoma cruzi: Human(amastigote / Metacyclic trypomastigotes,)

Intermediate host of Cruzi: Reduvid bug genus Triatomine (epimastigote).

Disease: chaga’s disease or American trypanosomiasis

Diagnostic stages of cruzi : Trypomastigte in tissue and Amastigote in blood

Three types of
development in the insect vector in trypanosoma

when the vector feeds, (e g. Trypanosoma gambiense) transmitted by vectors such as the tsetse fly.

transmitted by insects such as the reduvid bugs.

First stage on Pathogensity of T. rhodesiense & T. gambiense : initial haemolymphatic stage

First stage trypanosomal chancre on the site of inoculation within days of being bitten by an infected fly (most commonly occurs with T. gambiense

neuropsychiatric manifestations including
Motor:

Pathogensity of T .cruzi in Acute phase may not occur for years or even decades after the initial infection

Xenodiagnosis : this is a special diagnostic method for T.rhodesiense only