Disease Vectors and Pathogens

Ancylostoma is also called hookworm.

Correct answer is option (2).

Fasciolopsiasis is an infection caused by termatode.

Pin-worm disease is caused by Enterobius vermicularis.

Neuro cysticercosis is caused by T. solium. 

Any child who is anaemic, very pale or eats dirt may have hookworm infestation.

Trypanosoma gambiense causes sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle.

Passerine birds serve as the prime reservoir host of the WNV.

Tachyzoites are responsible for spread of infection within the host body.

 Xenopsylla cheopsis feeds on infected rodents and may bite man.

Helminths are able to survive in their mammalian hosts for many years due to immunomodulation.

Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living amoeba.

N. americanus infection is acquired only through skin.

Yellow fever is caused by yellow fever virus, which is spread by the bite of female mosquito. It spreads primarily by Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Both Chaga’s disease and Gambian fever (African sleeping sickness) are transmitted by Tse-tse fly (Glossina palpalis).