Q. 27 Given below are the pairs of pathogens and the diseases caused by them. Which out of these is not a matching pair and why?

(a) Virus                    Common cold
(b) Salmonella          Typhoid
(c) Microsporium     Filariasis

(f)Plasmodium        Malaria

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(C) Wuchereria species bancrofti and W malayi), the filarial worms cause a slowlyndeveloping chronic inflammation of the organs in which they live for many years, usually the lymphatic vessels of the lower limbs and the disease is called elephantiasis
of filariasis,

Fungi belonging to the genera Microsporium, Trichophyton and Epidermophyton are responsible for ringworms which is one of the most common infectious diseases in man.