Which of the following causes plague?
(a) Trichinella spiralis
(b) Salmonella typhimurum
(c) Yersinia pest is
(d) Leishmania donovani.
Answer:(c) Yersinia pestis
Plague is an acute epidemic disease of rats and other wild rodents caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is transmitted to humans by rat fleas. Headache, fever, weakness, aching limbs, and delirium develop and are followed by acute painful swellings of the lymph nodes.Whereas the Trichinosis is caused by Trichinella spiralis which lives as an endoparasite in human intestine. Salmonella lyphimurum causes enteric fevers. Leishmania donovani causes kala-azar.
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