Human Health And Disease Question 196
Question: ‘Amoebiasis’ (Amoebic dysentery) is caused by
[CPMT 1977. 78, 95; MP PMT 1993, 95; CBSE PMT 1992; RPMT 1995; BVP 2004]
Options:
A) Plasmodium vivax
B) Entamoeba gingivalis
C) Entamoeba histolytica
D) Trypanosoma gambiense
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Answer:
Correct Answer: C
Solution:
Entamoeba histolytica causes amoebic dysentery when contaminated food is consumed.
Plasmodium vivax is a vector for malaria and not a causative agent.
Entamoeba gingivalis causes pyorrhoea.
Trypanosoma gambiense causes sleeping sickness.
Thus, the correct answer is (C).
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