Multiple choice

Life cycle(s) of which of the following pathogenic protozoa is/are digenetic?

  1. Entamoeba histolytica
  2. Plasmodium vivax
  3. Trypanosam cruzi

  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Only 3

  4. 1 and 2

  5. 2 and 3
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E Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct because Plasmodium vivax (malaria parasite) completes its asexual part of life cycle in people and the sexual part in the female Anopheles mosquito (digenetic life cycle) and Trypanosam cruzi possesses a digenetic life cycle, involving a hematophagous insect vector and a mammalian host.

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