Identify the wrongly matched pair.
(A) Typhoid – Widal test
(B) Plague – Viral disease
(C) Malignant malaria – Plasmodium falciparum
(D) Common cold – Rhinovirus
A
A
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B
B
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C
C
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D
D
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Solution
The correct option is B B Plague is a bacterial disease not a viral disease, caused by a rod-shaped, non-motile, bacillus Pasteurella pestis. It is spread through the bite of infected rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopsis-vector).