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WHEN the free-living infective larva of a parasitic nematode penetrates its host, there is a fundamental change in the environment of the larva. There is, for example, a rise in the ambient temperature (from room temperature to 37° C) and changes in the relative amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide. During infection, changes must therefore take place in the physiology of the infective larvae to enable them to survive in the new conditions. These changes are of fundamental importance in the study of parasite physiology.
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BARRETT, J. Lipids of the Infective and Parasitic Stages of some Nematodes. Nature 218, 1267–1268 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2181267a0
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