posted on 2021-08-26, 17:51authored byLuisa Berná, Gonzalo Greif, Sebastián Pita, Paula Faral-Tello, Florencia Díaz-Viraqué, Rita De Cássia Moreira De Souza, Gustavo Adolfo Vallejo, Fernando Alvarez-Valin, Carlos Robello
T. cruzi is composed by two main groups 1 and 2, which does not correspond to the original I and II groups. Group 1 is divided in clades A, B and D, and group 2 contains clade C. Lower cases indicate the maxicircle variant (a, b, and c), and BC refers to hybrid strains.