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Disease Vectors and Pathogens

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Disease vectors and pathogens examine how organisms like Plasmodium and Leishmania transmit infections. Test items require matching vectors to specific diseases. Studying these life cycles is essential for scoring well.

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Disease Vectors and Pathogens Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Yellow fever

  2. Chickunhgunya

  3. West Nile fever

  4. None of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

All three diseases listed - Yellow fever, Chikungunya (misspelled as Chickunhgunya), and West Nile fever - are transmitted by mosquitoes. Therefore, 'None of the above' is correct, meaning there is no disease listed that is NOT mosquito-borne.

Multiple choice
  1. Plasmodium vivax

  2. Plasmodium malaria

  3. Plasmodium falciparum

  4. All of the above

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Malaria is caused by various species of the Plasmodium parasite, including P. vivax, P. malariae, and P. falciparum, all of which are transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito.

Multiple choice
  1. Culex

  2. Aedes

  3. Mansonides

  4. Kernel

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A Correct answer
Explanation

West Nile fever is a viral disease primarily transmitted to humans through the bite of infected Culex mosquitoes. Aedes mosquitoes are typically associated with dengue and Zika viruses.

Multiple choice
  1. Dengue

  2. Malaria

  3. Filiaria

  4. Leishmaniasis

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Sand flies (Phlebotomine sand flies) are the established vectors for the transmission of Leishmania parasites, which cause Leishmaniasis. Dengue is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and Malaria by Anopheles mosquitoes.

Multiple choice
  1. Liver of parasite

  2. Intestine of insect

  3. Liver of human

  4. RBC in human

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Life cycle of Plasmodium is completed in two hosts. Man is considered to be the primary host in which schizogony occurs in liver and blood, and female Anopheles mosquito is the secondary or intermediate host in which gametogony and sporogony takes place.

Multiple choice
  1. P. vivax

  2. P. falciparum

  3. P. ovale

  4. P .malariae

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Maurer's dots are observed in the erythrocytes of man infected by P. falciparum. It is characterized by the whole sole destructions of the patient's erythrocytes and the excretion of the liberated haemoglobin in the urine. This is called black water fever. 

Multiple choice
  1. In saliva and tears both

  2. In tears

  3. In saliva

  4. In mitochondria

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Lysozyme is an antibacterial enzyme present in phagocytic cells, tears, saliva, sweat and other body secretions. It digest peptidoglycan in bacterial cell wall. 

Multiple choice
  1. entry of sporozoites into blood capillaries

  2. entry of merozoites into liver cells

  3. release of merozoites from red blood cells

  4. entry of cryptomerozoites into red blood cells

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Malaria is caused by a protozoan Plasmodium vivax. Infective stage of Plasmodium is sporozoite. Schizogony is an asexual reproduction in which schizont is formed. It undergoes Pre-erythrocytic schizogony, exoerythrocytic schizogony and erythrocytic schizogony. During erythrocytic schizogony RBCs gets ruptured to release merozoits. At this stage malaria fever is felt. 

Multiple choice
  1. liver cells only

  2. liver, spleen and blood cells

  3. RBCs and liver cells

  4. RBCs only

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Plasmodium vivax is a digenetic malarial parasite which completes its life cycle on two hosts-mosquito (primary host) and man (secondary host). The life cycle of Plasmodium in mosquito called sporogony and in man schizogony. Schizogony includes three stages of which pre-erythrocytic and exo-erythrocytic schizogony takes place in RBC of blood of man which characterized by the formation of signet ring stage and schizont. 

Multiple choice
  1. Housefly - yellow fever

  2. Culex - filariasis

  3. Sandfly- amoebic dysentery

  4. Bedbug - kala azar

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Filaiasis or elephantiasis is caused in man by a blood and lymph nematode parasite Wuchereria transmitted form man to man by female Culex.

Multiple choice
  1. Try gambiense

  2. Try rangetii

  3. Try fruits

  4. Try cruzi

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A Correct answer
Explanation

Sleeping sickness is caused by Trypanosoma gambiense. It is a flagellate parasite of human blood transmitted by tsetse fly. In more advanced condition, the patient sleeps continuously, convulsions occur then profound coma and finally death. 

Multiple choice
  1. coccodousis

  2. mareks

  3. monilliasis

  4. coryza

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A fungal disease of poultry is monilliasis, which mainly occurs in young and growing chicks. 

Multiple choice
  1. Hookworms

  2. Pin worms

  3. Leeches

  4. Earthworms

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Leeches are well-known ectoparasites that feed on the blood of vertebrates. While some other organisms may be parasitic, leeches are the primary example of blood-sucking annelids.

Multiple choice
  1. Trypanosoma gambiense

  2. Plasmodium falciparum

  3. Leishmanis donovani

  4. Wuchereria bancrofti

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
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.