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How a parasite causes lymphatic filariasis, known as elephantiasis
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August 5, 2015
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Description: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
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