A new consensus for Trypanosoma cruzi intraspecific nomenclature: Second revision meeting recommends TcI to TcVI

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1051-1054

  Zingales, B ^a   Andrade, S G ^b   Briones, M R S ^c   Campbell, D A ^d   Chiari, E ^e   Fernandes, O ^b   Guhl, F ^f   Lages Silva, E ^g   Macedo, A M ^h   Machado, C R ^h   Miles, M A ⁱ   Romanha, A J ^b   Sturm, N R ^d   Tibayrenc, M ^j   Schijman, A G ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Departamento de Parasitologia   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TRIÂNGULO MINEIRO   (Brazil)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

ⁱ LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^j INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^k INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

more..

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Discrete typing units; Taxonomy; Trypanosoma cruzi strains

Indexed keywords

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 71149119832     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000700021     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Andrade SG 1974. Caracterização de cepas do Trypanozoma cruzi isoladas no Recôncavo Baiano. Rev Patol Trop 3: 65-121.
2. Andrade SG, Magalhães JB 1997. Biodemes and zymodemes of Trypanosoma cruzi strains: correlations with clinical data and experimental pathology. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 30: 27-35.
3. Anonymous 1999. Recommendations from a Satellite Meeting. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 94 (Suppl. II): 429-432.
4. Brisse S, Barnabé C, Tibayrenc M 2000. Identification of six Trypanosoma cruzi phylogenetic lineages by random amplified polymorphic DNA and multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. Int J Parasitol 30: 35-44.
5. Brisse S, Verhoef J, Tibayrenc M 2001. Characterization of large and small subunit rRNA and mini-exon genes further supports the distinction of six Trypanosoma cruzi lineages. Int J Parasitol 31: 1218-1226.
6. Campbell DA, Westenberger SJ, Sturm NR 2004. The determinants of Chagas disease: connecting parasite and host genetics. Curr Mol Med 4: 549-562.
7. Carneiro M, Chiari E, Gonçalves AM, da Silva Pereira AA, Morel CM, Romanha AJ 1990. Changes in the isoenzyme and kinetoplast DNA patterns of Trypanosoma cruzi strains induced by maintenance in mice. Acta Trop 47: 35-45.
8. Chapman M, Baggaley R, Godfrey-Fausset P, Malpas T, White G, Canese J, Miles M 1984. Trypanosoma cruzi from the Paraguayan Chaco: isoenzyme profiles of strains isolated at Makthlawaiya. J Protozool 31: 482-486.
9. Falla A, Herrera C, Fajardo A, Montilla M, Vallejo GA, Guhl F 2009. Haplotype identification within Trypanosoma cruzi I in Colombian isolates from several reservoirs, vectors and humans. Acta Trop 110: 15-21.
10. Freitas JM, Augusto-Pinto L, Pimenta JR, Bastos-Rodrigues L, Gonçalves VF, Teixeira SM, Chiari E, Junqueira AC, Fernandes O, Macedo AM, Machado CR, Pena SD 2006. Ancestral genomes, sex and the population structure of Trypanosoma cruzi. PLoS Pathog 2: e24.
11. Gaunt MW, Yeo M, Frame IA, Stothard JR, Carrasco HJ, Taylor MC, Mena SS, Veazey P, Miles GAJ, Acosta N, Arias ARD, Miles MA 2003. Mechanism of genetic exchange in American trypanosomes. Nature 421: 936-939.
12. Herrera C, Bargues MD, Fajardo A, Montilla M, Triana O, Vallejo GA, Guhl F 2007. Identifying four Trypanosoma cruzi I isolate haplotypes from different geographic regions in Colombia. Infect Genet Evol 7: 535-539.
13. Kawashita SY, Sanson GFO, Fernandes O, Zingales B, Briones MRS 2001. Maximum-likelihood divergence data estimates based on rRNA gene sequences suggest two scenarios of Trypanosoma cruzi intraspecific evolution. Mol Biol Evol 18: 2250-2259.
14. Lewis MD, Ma J, Yeo M, Carrasco HJ, Llewellyn MS, Miles MA 2009. Genotyping of Trypanosoma cruzi: systematic selection of assays allowing rapid and accurate discrimination of all known lineages. Am J Trop Med Hyg, in press.
15. Macedo AM, Pena SDJ 1998. Genetic variability of Trypanosoma cruzi: implications for the pathogenesis of Chagas disease. Parasitol Today 14: 119-123.
16. Mendonça MB, Nehme NS, Santos SS, Cupolillo E, Vargas N, Junqueira A, Naiff RD, Barrett TV, Coura JR, Zingales B, Fernandes O 2002. Two main clusters within Trypanosoma cruzi zymodeme 3 are defined by distinct regions of the ribosomal RNA cistron. Parasitol 124: 177-184.
17. Miles MA, Cedillos RA, Povoa MM, Souza AA de, Prata AA, Macedo V 1981. Do radically dissimilar Trypanosoma cruzi strains (zymodemes) cause Venezuelan and Brazilian forms of Chagas disease? Lancet 317: 1338-1340.
18. Miles MA, Llewellyn MS, Lewis MD, Yeo M, Baleela R, Fitzpatrick S, Gaunt MW, Mauricio IL 2009. The molecular epidemiology and phylogeography of Trypanosoma cruzi and parallel research on Leishmania: looking back and to the future. Parasitol, 136: 1509-1528.
19. Miles MA, Souza AA de, Povoa MM, Shaw JJ, Lainson R, Toyé PJ 1978. Isozymic heterogeneity of Trypanosoma cruzi in the first autochthonous patients with Chagas disease in Amazonian Brazil. Nature 272: 819-821.
20. Miles MA, Toyé PJ, Oswald SC, Godfrey DG 1977. The identification by isoenzyme patterns of two distinct strain-groups of Trypanosoma cruzi circulating independently in a rural area of Brazil. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 71: 217-225.
21. Morel C, Chiari E, Camargo EA, Mattei DM, Romanha AJ, Simpson L 1980. Strains and clones of Trypanosoma cruzi can be characterized by pattern of restriction endonuclease. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 77: 6810-6814.
22. Romanha AJ, da Silva Pereira AA, Chiari E, Kilgour V 1979. Isoenzyme patterns of cultured Trypanosoma cruzi changes after prolonged subculture. Comp Biochem Physiol 62: 139-142.
23. Souto RP, Fernandes O, Macedo AM, Campbell DA, Zingales B 1996. DNA markers define two major phylogenetic lineages of Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol Biochem Parasitol 83: 41-152.
24. Sturm NR, Campbell DA 2009. Alternative lifestyles: the population structure of Trypanosoma cruzi. Acta Trop, in press.
25. Sturm NR, Vargas NS, Westenberger SJ, Zingales B, Campbell DA 2003. Evidence for multiple hybrid groups in Trypanosoma cruzi. Int J Parasitol 33: 269-279.
26. Tibayrenc M 1998. Genetic epidemiology of parasitic protozoa and other infectious agents: the need for an integrated approach. Int J Parasitol 28: 85-104.
27. Tibayrenc M, Ayala FJ 1991. Towards a population genetics of microorganisms: the clonal theory of parasitic protozoa. Parasitol Today 7: 228-232.
28. Tibayrenc M, Ward P, Moya A, Ayala FJ 1986. Natural populations of Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease, have a complex multiclonal structure. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 83: 115-119.
29. Tomazi L, Kawashita SY, Pereira PM, Zingales B, Briones MRS 2009. Haplotype distribution of five nuclear genes based on network genealogies and Bayesian inference indicates that Trypanosoma cruzi hybrid strains are polyphyletic. Genet Mol Res 8: 458-476.
30. Westenberger SJ, Barnabé C, Campbell D, Sturm NR 2005. Two hybridization events define the population structure of Trypanosoma cruzi. Genetics 171: 527-543.