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Malaria and African sleeping sickness are caused respectively by

  1. plasmodium falciparum and trypanosoma gambiense

  2. plasmodium malariae and triatoma rhodinus

  3. anopheles sp. and trypanosoma cruzi

  4. giardia sp. and trypanosoma rhodesiense
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Explanation

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites, with P. falciparum being the most severe species. African sleeping sickness is caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (west African) or T. b. rhodesiense (east African). The term 'respectively' means the first organism matches the first disease, and the second matches the second disease.

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