2004 AIPMT Human Health and DiseaseCommon Diseases and their Vectors Easy Question 107 of 121 in Human Health and Disease

Which one of the following is not correctly matched

A Culex pipiens – Filariasis
B Aedes aegypti – Yellow fever
C Anopheles culicifacies – Leishmaniasis
D Glossina palpalis – Sleeping sickness

The answer is C.

Solution

Culex mosquito transmits Wuchereria bancrofti, which causes filariasis (elephantiasis); correctly matched.
Aedes aegypti transmits the viruses of yellow fever (and dengue); correctly matched.
Glossina palpalis (tsetse fly) transmits Trypanosoma, which causes African sleeping sickness; correctly matched.
Anopheles culicifacies is a vector of malaria (Plasmodium). Leishmaniasis (kala-azar) is transmitted by the sandfly Phlebotomus, not by Anopheles.
So the pair that is not correctly matched is Anopheles culicifacies – Leishmaniasis.

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