Vectors

Question 1

Housefly (Musca domestica)

Answer 1

Diarrhoeal and dysentrical diseases, Poliomyelitis, Yaws, Anthrax, Trachoma

Question 2

Sandfly (Phlebotamus argentipes)

Answer 2

Kala azar (Visceral Leishmaniasis), Oriental sore (Cutaneous Leishmaniasis), Sandfly fever, Oroya fever

Question 3

Tse-Tse fly (Glossina palpalis)

Answer 3

Sleeping sickness of Africa (African Trypanosomiasis)

Question 4

Reduviid bug (Triatominae)

Answer 4

Chagas Disease (Sleeping sickness of America- American Trypanosomiasis)

Question 5

Black fly (Simulum)

Answer 5

Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)

Question 6

Soft tick

Answer 6

Relapsing fever, 0 fever, KFD (outside India)

Question 7

Hard tick (Ixoid)

Answer 7

Tularemia, Babesiosis, KFD (India), Tick paralysis, Tick encephalitis, Tick hemorrhagic fever, Indian Tick Typhus, RMSF

Question 8

Louse

Answer 8

Epidemic typhus, Trench fever (Bartonella Quintana), Relapsing fever (Borellia recurrentis), Pediculosis.

Question 9

Mite

Answer 9

Scrub typhus, Rickettsial pox,

Scabies.

Question 10

Flea

Answer 10

Plague, Murine typhus, Hymenolepis diminuta.

Question 11

Anopheles mosquito

Answer 11

Malaria, Filaria (outside India), arboviruses of febrile and encephalitic disease

Question 12

Culex mosquito

Answer 12

Brancoftian Filariasis, JE, West Nile fever, St. Louis encephalitis virus, western equine encephalitis, Viral arthritis.

Question 13

Aedes mosquito

Answer 13

Yellow fever, Dengue, DHF, Chikungunya, Rift valley fever, Filariasis (Outside India), sindbis.

Question 14

Mansonoides mosquito

Answer 14

Malayan (Brugian) filariasis, brancoftian filariasis, Chikungunya.

Question 15

Cyclops

Answer 15

Guinea worm disease,

Fish Tape worm (Diphillobothrium latum)