Parasite Life Cycle

• What are the 3 common components of parasite life cycle?

  Mode of transmission, infective stage, and diagnostic stage
• Infective Stage: morphologic form that invades humans
• Diagnostic stage: form that can be detected via laboratory retrieval methods.
• Parasite life cycle: includes the adaptation of parasites to their host and the external environment
• Parasite life cycle can be what?

  simple or complicated