Question

Which is showing accurate pairing?

(a) syphilis – Treponema pallidum

(b) AIDS – Bacillus conjugalis

(c) gonorrhoea – Leishmania donovani

(d) typhoid – Mycobacterium leprae.

Answer 1

The correct option is a) syphilis – Treponema pallidum.

Syphilis is caused by a spirochete called as spiral bacterium, which is Treponema pallidum. The symptoms of syphilis occur in three stages. The first stage consists of a painless lesion,the second stage starts as the organism enters the blood. Symptoms such as fever, a flu like illness, a skin rash, hair loss, and swollen joints and third stage is brain damage, heart disease, and blindness.

AIDS is a viral disease caused by Human Immuno deficiency virus. Gonorrhoea is a sexual disease and its causative organism is Neisseria gonorrhoea. Typhoid is caused by bacillus bacteria Salmonella typhae.