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Author: BAUMAN
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Chapter 20, Problem 11MC
Which of the following diseases is caused most commonly by protozoan infections?
- a. variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- b. trachoma
- c. African trypanosomiasis
- d. Hansen’s disease
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