Abstract
The flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi is the etiological agent of Chagas disease, of great relevance in Latin America. In the heteroxene life cycle, T. cruzi alternates between stages that present biochemical and morphological differences: replicative forms, epimastigotes (invertebrate host) and amastigotes (mammalian host); and infective forms, metacyclic trypomastigotes, bloodstrea…