Summary: 1
What about tissue helminths?
Filarial nematodes eg
Brugia malayi inhabiting
human lymphatics and blood
Schistosomes eg
Schistosoma mansoni, living
in hepatic vasculature
Ability of L3 to
establish
Adult survival
and Mf production
Mf survival
Mouse Model of Filariasis
Day 8
L3 L4
Day 22 - 25
L4 adult
Day 50
Circulating microfilariae

Source: Allen, Judith - School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Collections: Biology and Medicine