infection in humans and experimental pets causes Chagas disease which is often accompanied by myocarditis, vasculopathy and cardiomyopathy. metacyclic trypomastigotes transform into nondividing, bloodstream stage trypomastigotes that may infect any nucleated mammalian cell type where they transform to intracellular amastigotes (Ferriera et al. 2006). Amastigotes transform into blood-stage trypomastigotes and pass on to adjacent uninfected… Continue reading infection in humans and experimental pets causes Chagas disease which is