MCQ Microbiology Answer 46

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The correct Answer is D.

Many micro-organisms / diseases can be transmitted by arthropods:

  • Bacteria : plague, borrelia, rickettsiae, bartonella

  • Protozoa : malaria, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, babesia

  • Worms : filaria, minor tapeworms (Hymenolepis sp, Dipylidium caninum)

  • Viruses : see below (all arboviruses, by definition)


Some viruses can be transmitted by arthropods and are then called arboviruses. The term ARBO is an abbreviation of "ARthropod BOrne". The name “arbovirus” therefore has no taxonomic value.



  • Togaviridae

  • Alphaviruses: Chikungunya, Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE), Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis (VEE)

  • Flaviviridae

  • Flaviviruses: Dengue, Japanese Encephalitis, Yellow fever, West Nile, Russian Spring Summer Encephalitis (RSSE) and the related European Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE), Powassan, Murray Valley (Australia). Alkhurma virus is a flavivirus of the TBE-complex, responsable for tick-borne haemorrhagic fever

  • Bunyaviridae

  • Nairoviruses: Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever

  • Phleboviruses: Rift Valley Fever, Phlebotomus fever (Sicilian and Naples virus)

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