Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite of the class (one cell) that causes disease or American trypanosomiasis Chagaâ disease in humans. Small animals such as cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rats, and opossums can act as a reservoir of parasites and they are also very influential on the spread of parasites.
Trypanosoma cruzi life cycle.
The life cycle is complex and we would not know all the names of various forms of minors. Basically, blood-sucking bedbugs mammals such as mosquitoes. Bedbugs usually bite at night and bite is not painful. Bedbugs eat T. cruzi grown from mammals that have been previously infected. Parasite through several stages of development in the digestive system bedbugs. While the blood sucking ticks also defecate on the bodies of mammals that T. cruzi present in the digestive process to enter the skin through a flea bite wounds and abrasions. Parasites can also enter the body of mammals through the lips, nose, or eyes that may be contaminated with feces bedbugs. In the mammalian body, T.cruzi get into muscle and other cells to begin the process of reproduction into two parts. After several days, infected cells burst and T. cruzi can enter the circulatory and digestive systems bedbugs, or enter another cell where they repeat the reproductive process and resolve the host cells. Perinatal infection rarely occurs, either through utero transmission (via the placenta) as well as transmission through infected mother’s milk. Cats and dogs can be infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. through bedbug bites, bedbugs eating an infected, or eating other small animals are also infected. T.cruzi can be transmitted from animals to humans and vice versa through the bedbugs bite.
Trypanosoma clinical signs of infection in dogs as follows:
If a large number of parasites get into the heart can cause inflammation, and the dog could suddenly collapse and die, but these cases are rare.
Progress in cardiovascular disorders has been slow and often confused with the common type of heart disease, some dogs showed weakness in its entirety and inkoordinasi.
Trypanosoma infection clinical signs in cats as follows:
Convulsions and paralysis in the hind legs.
Many host cells which broke out at the same time and can happen fever.
Diagnosis of infection T. Cruzi as follows:
The number of parasites in the blood is very small, and through blood examination techniques “thick smear” using a microscope slide with high magnification, the new parasites can be seen.
Use a similar procedure, malalui limfonodul could show us the parasite.
Serological test has been developed for the diagnosis of trypanosomiasis.
Parasites may be found in the heart muscle post mortem.
Xenodiagnosis an effective examination for the diagnosis of infection of T. cruzi. In this procedure, bedbugs and blood or tissue from a person or animal bitten suspected parasites examined in the laboratory. Bedbugs then killed and the digestive system tested.
Therapy of infection T. cruzi.
There is no specific treatment for the infection of T. cruzi in cats. Because this is very dangerous to humans, is generally recommended to dieutanasi infected animals. The most effective control method is to eliminate bedbugs. But this way is not always easy because bedbugs tend to hide in cracks and ruins of buildings, often also can be used pesticides.
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