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Malaria - Plasmodium Life Cycle
1) Mosquito takes a blood meal (injects sporozoites)
Human Liver Stages
2) Infected liver
) Human Liver Stages ... 5) Human Blood Stages ... lifecycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases ... #cdc #parasite
Leishmaniasis Life Cycle
1) Sandfly takes a blood meal (injects promastigote stage into the skin)
Human Stages:
2) Promastigotes
the skin) Human Stages ... cells Sandfly Stages ... LifeCycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases ... #cdc #parasite
Strongyloides fuelleborni Lifecycle
Free-Living Cycle
1) Eggs containing rhabditiform larvae passed in feces.
2) Rhabditiform larvae hatch in environment.
Parasitic Cycle ... become adults. 8) Parasitic ... intestine 9) Parasitic ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases
Loiasis - Loa loa Life Cycle
1) Fly (genus Chrysops) takes a meal (L3 larvae enter bite
wound) Human Stages ... microfilariae) Fly Stages ... LifeCycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases ... #cdc #parasite
Onchocerciasis - Onchocerca volvulus Life Cycle
1) Blackfly (genus Simulium) takes a blood meal (L3 larvae enter
wound) Human Stages ... Blackfly Stages: ... LifeCycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases ... #cdc #parasite
Echinococcus Life Cycle
1) Adult in small intestine eggs
2) Embryonated egg in feces
3) Oncosphere hatches; penetrates intestinal
LifeCycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases ... #cdc #parasite
Strongyloides Stercoralis Lifecycle
Free-Living Cycle:
1) Rhabditiform larvae in the intestine are excreted in stool. 
2) Development into
Parasitic Cycle: ... become adults. 8) Parasitic ... LifeCycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases ... #cdc #parasite
Echinostomiasis - Echinostoma Life Cycle
1) Unembroynated eggs passed in feces
2) Embryonated eggs in water
3) Miracidia hatch
LifeCycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases ... #cdc #parasite
Babesiosis - Babesia Life Cycle
1) Tick takes a blood meal (sporozoites introduced into host)
2) Trophozie ←→
LifeCycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases ... #cdc #parasite
African Trypanosomiasis - Trypanosoma brucei gambiense & Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense Life Cycle
1) Tsetse fly takes a
trypomastigotes) Mammalian Stages ... phase Tsetse Fly Stages ... LifeCycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases ... #cdc #parasite