Humans contract Chagas disease when the reduviid bug defecates while taking a blood meal and the parasites in the feces are rubbed or scratched into the bite wound or onto mucosal surfaces. Which stage in the blood infects the host cells?

a. Amastigote
b. Epimastigote
c. Trypomastigote
d. Promastigote


C
Humans contract Chagas disease when the reduviid bug defecates while taking a blood meal and the parasites in the feces are rubbed or scratched into the bite wound or onto mucosal surfaces. Only the trypomastigotes are found free in the peripheral blood.

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