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Casaual organisms of sleeping sickness and kala-azar belong to which of thefollowing groups of protozoan protists?

A

Amoeboid protozoans

B

Flagellated protozoans

C

Ciliated protozoans

D

Sporozoans

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B
Trypanosoma gambiense, causes Gambian sleeping sickness. The parasite is transmitted by blood sucking tse-tse fly, Glossina palpalis. Leishmania donovani causes kala-azar or dum-dum fever (= visceral leishmaniasis). The parasite is transmitted by sandfly, Phlebotomus argentipes and other spcies. Causal organisms of both diseases belong to falgellated protozoans of Kingdom Protista.
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