Indicate the organism associated to the following disease:
a. Chagas disease
b. Kala azar
c. Quartan malaria
A) Chagas disesas : Also known as AmericanTrypanosomiasis is caused by protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Cause acute inflammation of skin, inflammation of other body tissue like heart and intestinal inflammation . Spread mostly by an insect Triatominae or kissing bug and sometimes by reduviid bug.
B) Kala Azar
Pathogen : leishemina donovani, leishemina infantum leishemina Chagasi
Vector : female phalebotomine sandflies
Sandflies feed on animals, humans for the development of eggs . Also known as black fever dumdum fever
C) Quarten malaria
Pathogen :Palsmodium malariae
Vector :Female anopheles mosquito
In Quarten malaria fever reoccur at approximately three days interval. It affects liver, spleen and Red blood cells of infected person.
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