Filariasis - Life Cycle of Wuchereria bancrofti 1) Mosquito takes a blood meal 2) Adults in lymphatics 3) Adults produce sheathed microfilariae that migrate into lymph and blood channels 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 #Wuchereria #bancrofti #filariasis #lifecycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology #infectiousdiseases #cdc #parasite
