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Definitive host of guinea worm is
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Guinea worm Dracunculus medinensis has humans as definitive host where adult females reside subcutaneously and release larvae. Cyclops copepod acts as intermediate host ingesting larvae. Snail hosts schistosomes and liver flukes, while ticks transmit protozoa but not guinea worm.
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