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Center for Global Health (U.S.) ; Rotary International ;
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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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Elephantiasis, Filarial
Wuchereria Bancrofti

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Infographic ;
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Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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