NEET 1993 · Class 12

Human Health and Disease

Give the correct matching of causative agent/germ and disease. (a) Anopheles – Malaria (b) Leishmania – Sleeping sickness (c) Glossina – Kala-azar (d) Wuchereria – Filariasis

  1. (A)(a) Anopheles – Malaria
  2. (B)(b) Leishmania – Sleeping sickness
  3. (C)(c) Glossina – Kala-azar
  4. (D)(d) Wuchereria – Filariasis

The NCERT line that answers it

Verbatim line

*Wuchereria* (*W. bancrofti* and *W. malayi*), the filarial worms cause a slowly developing chronic inflammation of the organs in which they live for many years, usually the lymphatic vessels of the lower limbs and the disease is called **elephantiasis** or **filariasis** (Figure 7.2).

Chapter
Human Health and Disease
Section
7.1 COMMON DISEASES IN HUMANS
Page
6
Words matched
43 of 43

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How this line gives the answer

0, emb=1.0, combined=1.0). Verified: high — The span explicitly states that Wuchereria causes filariasis, which directly matches option D and distinguishes it from the incorrect options.

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