Trypanosoma cruzi infection in a dog in a non-endemic area: implications for one health
International Journal of Development Research
Trypanosoma cruzi infection in a dog in a non-endemic area: implications for one health
Received 10th April, 2023; Received in revised form 29th April, 2023; Accepted 27th May, 2023; Published online 30th June, 2023
Copyright©2023, Paulo Victor X. C. Soares. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi causes Chagas disease also known as American trypanosomiasis, a vector-borne zoonosis widely dispersed across 21 countries in the Americas that can be transmitted to humans, wild and domestic animals mostly through the infected faeces of the blood-sucking triatomine insects. The role of dogs as sentinels or domestic reservoir for T. cruzi has been reported around the world. This study reports for the first time a natural infection by T. cruzi in a dog in Northeastern Brazil, and draws attention to the importance of dogs in the epidemiology of this disease within the context of One Health.
