Multiple choice

Which of the following is correct match of disease and its causative agent?

  1. Dysentery: Plasmodium

  2. Malaria: Entamoeba

  3. Typhoid: Salmonella

  4. Tuberculosis: Trypanosoma
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Typhoid is correctly matched with Salmonella, its bacterial causative agent. Dysentery is caused by Entamoeba (not Plasmodium), malaria is caused by Plasmodium (not Entamoeba), and tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (not Trypanosoma, which causes sleeping sickness). Option C is the only correct match.

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