How a parasite causes lymphatic filariasis, known as elephantiasis

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Global Health (U.S.) ; Rotary International
• 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
  
  parasite_lymphatic_filariasis
  
  
• Subjects:
  Elephantiasis, Filarial Wuchereria Bancrofti
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 infographic
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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