NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
MICROBIOLOGY
Question
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Designed from the procedure of removing parasitic guinea worm
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Delta and Omicron
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Caduceus
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Surveillance (case detection) and case containment (preventing contamination of drinking water sources by infected persons or animals) Provision of safe drinking water. Vector control (killing of the copepods involved in the Guinea worm life cycle) using the approved chemical temephos.
Detailed explanation-2: -As it was, this was determined in 1870 by a Russian naturalist, Alexei Fedchenko (67), who found that larvae expelled from emerging female worms in the limbs of sufferers developed in freshwater microcrustaceans (cyclops) living in ponds, which were then ingested in drinking water.
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