Green microalgae as a potential source of trypanocide compounds.

Due to the limitations of Chagas disease therapy, microalgae can be promising in the search of new trypanocidal compounds, since these organisms produce bioactive compounds with large pharmaceutical applications, including antiparasitic effects. In this work, trypanocidal activity of aqueous extract of and, for the first time, aqueous extract of were evaluated against trypomastigote forms of . In addition, cytotoxic activity in Vero cells was evaluated.