“…Due to direct microscopic detection of trypanosomes, the traditional method for assessment of infection in vectors is not able to distinguish T. cruzi from T. rangeli infection, several polymerase chain reaction techniques have been developed 3,4,5,6,9,13,19,28,33,36,40,41 . However, current PCR assays used for mixed infection detection show some disadvantages such as the amplification of bands of similar size both in T. cruzi and T. rangeli 27,28 , the amplification of polymorphic fragments 11,19 , and bias to T. cruzi in the case of mixed T. cruzi and T. rangeli infection 9,33,36 .…”