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Given below are the pairs of pathogens and the diseases caused by them. Which out of these is not a matching pair and why?

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Wuchereria species 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 .
Fungi belonging to the genera Microsporium, Trichophyton and Epidermophyton are responsible for ringworms which is one of the most common infectious diseases in man.
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