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To the student of parasitology, the life cycles of parasites can often present a bewildering array of detail, with no obvious pattern appearing at first glance. Nevertheless there are certain events that are common in the life-cycles of all parasites, one of which is transmission to the next host. Transmission may occur more than once during a single life-cycle, should the parasite develop in one or more intermediate hosts. The adult or mature parasite completes its development and reproduces in the final, or definitive host, releasing eggs, larvae or other infective stages that must be transmitted to another host, whether it be of the same species (as in a direct life-cycle) or to hosts that are of different species (if the life-cycle is indirect).
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Chappell, L.H. (1979). Parasite Transmission. In: Physiology of Parasites. Tertiary Level Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7808-2_7
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