Definitive Host: Human                      Intermediate Host: Mango Fly

 

Step by Step Phases of the Life Cycle

	1) Mango Fly bites human and takes blood meal. Larvae are deposited on the skin and enter through bite wound .
	2) Larvae develop into adult worms and wander through subcutaneous tissue
	3) Adults produce sheathed eggs called that travel to the spinal fluid, blood, urine, sputum, and lungs
	4) Mango Fly bites human and takes blood meal. Eats microfilariae.
	5) Microfilariae shed their sheaths and migrate to the thoracic muscles of the fly.
	6) Microfilariae develop into larvae.
	7) Further larval development. Infective 10-12 days after ingestion.
	8) Larvae migrate to the fly's mouth

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