How a parasite causes lymphatic filariasis, known as elephantiasis

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How a parasite causes lymphatic filariasis, known as elephantiasis

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Wuchereria bancrofti is one of the parasites that causes the painful, infectious disease. Human Stages: 1. Mosquito takes a blood meal (L3 larvae enter skin) 2. Adults in lymphatics 3. Adults produce sheathed microfilariae that migrate into lymph and blood channels Mosquito Stages: 4. Mosquito takes a blood meal (ingests microfilariae) 5. Microfilariae shed sheaths, penetrate mosquito's midgut, and migrate to thoracic muscles 6. L1 larvae 7. L3 larvae 8. Migrate to head and mosquito's proboscis parasite_lymphatic_filariasis

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How a parasite causes lymphatic filariasis, known as elephantiasis

How a parasite causes lymphatic filariasis, known as elephantiasis

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