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Option 4 : Common round worms
The correct answer is Common round worms.
- Ascariasis
- It is a disease caused by Common roundworms.
- Common Roundworm is a type of parasitic helminth.
- Ascariasis is an infection of the small intestine caused by Ascaris lumbricoides, a species of roundworm.
- It is the most common roundworm infection.
- People with ascariasis often show symptoms like internal bleeding, muscular pain, fever, anaemia, and blockage of the intestinal passage.
- The eggs of the parasite are excreted along with the faeces of infected persons that contaminate soil, water, plants, etc.
- Since the infection also spreads through contaminated soil, they are also known as soil-transmitted worms (STH).
- A healthy person acquires this infection through contaminated water, vegetables, fruits, etc.
- It is a disease caused by Common roundworms.
- Wuchereria (filarial worm)
- Filarial worms are parasitic nematodes.
- It is found in the lymph nodes of humans, causing the lymphatic filariasis called Bancroft's filariasis.
- These filarial worms are spread by a variety of mosquito vector species.
- The infection also spreads from person to person by mosquito bites.
- Protozoan
- It is a single-celled microscopic animal of a group of phyla of the kingdom Protista.
- Diarrhea is a disease caused by the Entamoeba histolytica protozoan that is spread by house flies.
- This results in a wound in the intestine, destroying trypsin, an enzyme that digests proteins.
- Ringworms
- It is a common skin infection that is caused by a fungus.
- This disease spreads through the fungi namely Trycophyton Lerucosum.
- This is a infectious disease.
- Symptoms of this disease are round red spots found on the skin.
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