Multiple choice

______is responsible for sleeping sickness.

  1. Trypanosoma

  2. Leishmania

  3. Rhizobium

  4. Mycobacterium
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Explanation

Trypanosoma is a genus of kinetoplastids, a monophyletic group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa, which are responsible for African sleeping sickness. The other options are bacteria or other types of parasites not associated with this specific disease.

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