Multiple choice

Through its bite, tse-tse fly (Glossina) transmits

  1. Trypanosoma gambiense

  2. Plasmodium falciparum

  3. Leishmanis donovani

  4. Wuchereria bancrofti
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Explanation

Trypanosomiasis is most serious protozoan disease caused by a flagellate protozoan, Trypanosomiasis gambiense. It is found firstly in blood, than in lymph and finally in the cerebrospinal vfluid of man. Its secondary host is a blood sucking insect Glossina (tse-tse fly). Wuchereria bancrofti causes filariasis or elephantiasis in man. 

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