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The disease caused by Trypanosoma is...

The disease caused by Trypanosoma is

A

Yellow fever

B

Sleeping sickness

C

Kala azar

D

None of these

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B
Trypanosoma gambiense causes west and central african sleeping sickness or Gambian fever. It is a fatal infection of the nervous and lymphatic systems that is endemic in certain parts of africa. The vector of the flagellate is the tse-tse fly glossina.
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