KROK 1 2014 – Question 132 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
As an example of specific human parasites one can name Plasmodium falciparum, human pinworm and some others. The source of parasite invasion is always a human. Such specific human parasites cause the diseases that are called:
- A. Anthroponoses
- B. Anthropozoonoses
- C. Multifactorial diseases
- D. Infections
- E. Zoonoses
Hint
Ask which epidemiological term is based on the reservoir of the pathogen, and which reservoirs the stem allows.
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