Vector

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Differentiate between carrier and vector.

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Vector of Filaria is ______.

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The most common carrier of communicable diseases is:

1. Ant

2. Housefly

3. Dragonfly

4. Spider

Q. Which among the following disease is caused by $Wuchereria$ $bancrofti$?

1. Elephantiasis
2. Ringworm
3. Kala - azar
4. Ascariasis

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Female Anopheles mosquitoes spread the disease __ .

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The vector for Yellow fever is _________ .

Q. Name any three diseases transmitted through vectors.

Q. Malaria is spread by the bite of which mosquito?

1. Female Anopheles
2. Male Anopheles
3. Culex
4. Aedes

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Match the following diseases with their vectors.

$\begin{array}{cc}\text{Disease}& \text{Vector}\\ a)\text{Malaria}& i)\text{Flea}\\ b)\text{Dengue}& ii)\text{Tse-tse fly}\\ c)\text{Sleeping sickness}& iii)\text{Aedes mosquito}\\ d)\text{Plague}& iv)\text{Anopheles mosquito}\end{array}$

1. a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv

2. a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i

3. a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i

4. a-iv, b-ii, c-iii, d-i

Q. Intermediaries which carry disease causing microorganisms from one person to another are called vectors.

1. True
2. False

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Name the target cells of Plasmodium (malaria pathogen).

Q.

Question 12
Which disease is not transmitted by mosquitoes?

(a) Dengue
(b) Malaria
(c) Brain fever or encephalitis
(d) Pneumonia

Q.

Give causative organisms of diarrhoea, flu and malaria.

Q.

What are vectors? How do they spread diseases?

Q. Elephantiasis or filariasis is caused by Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi. The major symptoms are:

1. Chronic inflammation of lymphatic vessels of lower limbs
2. Deformities of genital organs
3. Swelling of scrotum
4. All of the above

Q. is a communicable disease which spreads through contaminated water.

1. Tuberculosis
2. Botulism
3. Cholera

Q. Which disease is not transmitted by mosquitoes?

(a) Dengue
(b) Malaria
(c) Brain fever or encephalitis
(d) Pneumonia

Q.

Vectors carry the droplet infection

1. True
2. False

Q. Which among the following diseases is caused by Wuchereria bancrofti?

1. Elephantiasis
2. Ascariasis
3. Ringworm
4. Kala - azar

Q. Which of the following diseases is not transmitted by mosquitoes?

1. Brain fever
2. Malaria
3. Typhoid
4. Dengue

Q. Leishmania, a protozoan causes _______.

1. malaria
2. kala-azar
3. AIDS
4. anthrax

Q.

$Howdoweusevectorsinreallife?$

Q. Question 18
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

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Question 12
Which disease is not transmitted by mosquitoes?

(a) Dengue
(b) Malaria
(c) Brain fever or encephalitis
(d) Pneumonia

Q. Symptoms of pneumonia

Q. Dengue is spread by the bite of which mosquito?

1. Female Anopheles
2. Male Anopheles
3. Culex
4. Aedes

Q.

Microbe which causes malaria.

Q.

1. Avoiding kissing
2. Avoiding clothes of patient
3. Avoiding contaminated food
4. None of the above

Q. Identify the disease based on the life cycle shown.

1. Malaria
2. Japanese encephalitis
3. Jaundice
4. Kala-azar

Q. The organisms carrying infectious agents from a sick person to another potential host are known as .

1. viruses
2. vectors
3. vehicles
4. causative agents