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Write the causative agents of the following:

(i) kala azar

(ii) ascariasis

(iii) acne

(iv) SARS

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Solution

Leishmania is a protozoan and it causes kala-azar. The staphylococcus-a bacterium that causes acne). Ascaris lumbricoides hominis causes ascariasis. SARS is caused by a strain of coronavirus, the same family of viruses that causes the common cold.


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