Schistosoma mansoni Infection Cycle

This template shows the seven-step infection cycle of Schistosoma mansoni, starting with cercariae penetrating human skin, transforming into schistosomulae, and migrating to the liver portal vein to mature into adult worms. Paired adults migrate to the bowel and lay eggs shed in stool, which hatch into miracidia that penetrate snail tissue, produce successive generations of sporocysts, and release free-swimming cercariae back into the water.

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