The ultrastructural features of Trypanosoma myoti resemble those of Trypanosoma cruzi, including characteristic kinetoplast DNA condensation.
May complicate T. cruzi identification in bats; leaves open zoonotic relevance for Schizotrypanum species.
Trypanosoma myoti from the bat Myotis lucifugus was cultured in a diphasic blood-agar and saline medium and examined using transmission electron microscopy. Glutaraldehyde fixation revealed a pattern of kinetoplast DNA condensation in the epimastigote which is characteristic of the subgenus Schizotrypanum. Ferritin was used to demonstrate a functional cytostome–cytopharynx complex. Replication of the basal bodies, flagella, kinetoplast, and the nucleus during binary fission is described. Also present were cells which contain multiple sets of organelles and which undergo multiple fission. The ultrastructural features of Trypanosoma myoti resemble those of Trypanosoma cruzi.
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