Question

Identify the wrongly matched pair

• A. Typhoid _Widal test
• B. Plague-Viral disease
• C. Malignant malaria-Plasmodium falciparum
• D. Common cold-Rhinovirus
• E. Trichophyton-Ringworm

Answer 1

The correct option is B Plague-Viral disease

• Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Yersinia pestis is a gram-negative, nonmotile, facultative anaerobic organism that can infect humans via the Oriental rat flea (parasite of rodents).
• Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache, swelling of lymph nodes, shortness of breath, cough and chest pain may occur.
  
• Hence Plague is not a viral disease but it is a bacterial disease caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis.
• So, the correct answer is 'Option B'.