WAEC - Biology (1988 - No. 32)
The causative organism of sleeping sickness is the?
Trypanosome
Plasmodium
Vibrio bacterium
penicillin
tsetse fly
Vysvětlení
African Trypanosomiasis, also known as “sleeping sickness”, is caused by microscopic parasites of the species Trypanosoma brucei.
It is transmitted by the tsetse fly (Glossina species), which is found only in sub-Saharan Africa.