Biology
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780078024269
Author: Sylvia Mader, Michael Windelspecht
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 21, Problem 11A
Apicomplexans are responsible for which disease?
a. vaginitis
b. African sleeping sickness
c. red tide
d. Chagas disease
e. malaria
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