Vector
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Differentiate between carrier and vector.
Vector of Filaria is ______.
The most common carrier of communicable diseases is:
Ant
Housefly
Dragonfly
Spider
- Elephantiasis
- Ringworm
- Kala - azar
- Ascariasis
Female Anopheles mosquitoes spread the disease
The vector for Yellow fever is _________ .
- Female Anopheles
- Male Anopheles
- Culex
- Aedes
Match the following diseases with their vectors.
DiseaseVectora)Malariai)Fleab)Dengueii)Tse-tse flyc)Sleeping sicknessiii)Aedes mosquitod)Plagueiv)Anopheles mosquito
a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv
a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i
a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i
a-iv, b-ii, c-iii, d-i
- True
- False
Name the target cells of Plasmodium (malaria pathogen).
Question 12
Which disease is not transmitted by mosquitoes?
(a) Dengue
(b) Malaria
(c) Brain fever or encephalitis
(d) Pneumonia
Give causative organisms of diarrhoea, flu and malaria.
What are vectors? How do they spread diseases?
- Chronic inflammation of lymphatic vessels of lower limbs
- Deformities of genital organs
- Swelling of scrotum
- All of the above
- Tuberculosis
- Botulism
- Cholera
(a) Dengue
(b) Malaria
(c) Brain fever or encephalitis
(d) Pneumonia
Vectors carry the droplet infection
- True
- False
- Brain fever
- Malaria
- Typhoid
- Dengue
- Elephantiasis
- Ascariasis
- Ringworm
- Kala - azar
- malaria
- kala-azar
- AIDS
- anthrax
Vectors can be defined as
(a) animals carry the infecting agents from sick person to another healthy person
(b) microorganisms which cause many diseases
(c) infected person
(d) diseased plants
Question 12
Which disease is not transmitted by mosquitoes?
(a) Dengue
(b) Malaria
(c) Brain fever or encephalitis
(d) Pneumonia
- Female Anopheles
- Male Anopheles
- Culex
- Aedes
Microbe which causes malaria.
- Avoiding kissing
- Avoiding clothes of patient
- Avoiding contaminated food
- None of the above
- Malaria
- Japanese encephalitis
- Jaundice
- Kala-azar
- viruses
- vectors
- vehicles
- causative agents