KROK 1 2017 – Question 163 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
In the South and Central America there can be found a species of trypanosomes that is the causative agent of Chagas disease. What animal is the infection carrier specific to this disease?
- A. Triatomine bug
- B. Mosquito
- C. Tsetse fly
- D. Gnat
- E. Cockroach
Hint
Match the geographic distribution of this trypanosome to its arthropod vector, remembering that African and American trypanosomiases are carried by different insects.
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