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Dysentery is a bacterial disease.

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Important Questions on Health and Hygiene

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Match the following related to parasites?

Parasite Disease Caused
(i) Trypanosoma gambiense (a) Delli boils /oriental sores /
Tashkent ulcers
(ii) Wuchereria bancrofti (b) Malaria
(iii) Leishmania donovani (c) African sleeping sickness
(iv) Plasmodium sps (d) Elephantiasis
(v) Leishmania tropica (e) Kala-azar / Dum dum fever / Visceral Leishmaniasis

 

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Assertion (A): Entamoeba histolytica is a monogenetic parasite.

Reason (R): It is infected by contaminated food.

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Assertion (A): Plasmodium causes hypertrophy of RBCs in man.

Reason (R): The number of RBCs in man increases due to Plasmodium.

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Draw a well labelled diagram to show the Life cycle of Plasmodium.

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Identify the sequence of stages in the Golgi cycle of Plasmodium vivax.

a) Schizont

b) Amoeboid

c) Trophozoite

d) Signet-ring

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Match the following related to the effects of parasites on the host.

Parasite Effect on host Host effected
a Sacculina i Hypertrophy p Sheep
b Larva of Fasciola ii Hyperplasia q Snail
c Plasmodium iii Parasitic castration r Carcinus
d Fasciola hepatica iv Gigantism s Man
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Identify the correct sequence of stages in the Ross cycle of plasmodium?
a) Sporocyst
b) Ookinete
c) Sporozoite
d) Zygote
e) Oocyst
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Name the causative agent of malaria. Explain the mode of infection of malaria.
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Identify correct combinations.

  Primary Host Secondary Host Parasite
A Man Culex Wucheraria
B Man Anopheles Plasmodium
C Man Musca Entamoeba
D Man Absent Ascaris
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The interval between the first entry of Plasmodium into the blood in the form of sporozoites and the second entry in the form of cryptozoites is called
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How is the following disease transmitted?

Malaria

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Arrange the following statements in sequence regarding Amoebiasis infection:
1) The trophozoites multiply by binary fission and produce cysts and both stages are passed in the faeces.
2) Trophozoites migrate to the large intestine.
3) Excystation occurs in the small intestine and trophozoites are released.
4) Infection by Entamoeba histolytica occurs by ingestion of mature cysts in fecally contaminated food, water, or hands.
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What is the first infective stage of malarial parasite in man?
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In the given diagram of the trophozoite stage of Entamoeba. Identify parts labelled as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and select the option.

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Name the causative agent of malaria. State any two symptoms and two preventive measures of malaria.
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Name any two protozoan diseases, their causative organism and any two symptoms. 
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What is amoebiasis? Write the name of its causative agent.
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Assertion (A): Sometimes relapse of malaria may take place even after treatment.

Reason (R): Activation of hypnozoites.

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In the erythrocytic cycle of Plasmodium vivax, the following stages are present.
Arrange them in correct sequence.
I) Amoeboid stage
II) Trophozoite
III) Schizont
IV) Signet ring stage
V) Erythrocytic merozoites
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The infectious stage of Plasmodium that enters the human body is