Found in Synanthropic Mammals from Urban Forests of Paraná, Southern Brazil.

is a parasitic protozoan that infects a diversity of hosts constituting the cycle of enzootic transmission in wild environments and causing disease in humans (Chagas disease) and domestic animals. Wild mammals constitute natural reservoirs of this parasite, which is transmitted by hematophagous kissing bugs of the family Reduviidae. is genetically subdivided into six discrete typing units (DTUs), (Tc)I to TcVI.