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Grade 12Zoology

Dysentery is a bacterial disease. Name the bacteria which cause it

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9 Years agoGrade 12
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9 Years ago
THE DISEASE IS NOT A BACTERIAL DISEASE. IT IS A DISEASE CAUSED BY PROTOZOAN PARASITE.
ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTIC IS A PROTOZOAN PARASITE WHICH CAUSES AMOEBIC DYSENTRY
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Profile image of nihala
9 Years ago
Sir but given in ncert pg 147 .dysentery, plague, diphtheria etc are some of the bacterial diseases in man
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer9 Years ago
ACTUALLY THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF DYSENTRY. DYSENTRY INFECTIONS IS CAUSED BY BACTERIA AND PROTOZOAN AS WELL. DYSENTRY CAUSED BY PROTOZOAN PARASITE IS THE MOST COMMON. SO I THOUGHT THAT YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT THAT.
OTHERWISE BACTERIA WHICH CAUSES DYSENTRY IS Shigella
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