Question

What are harmful microorganisms? Explain by giving the example of two diseasecarrying microbes.

Answer 1

Answer:

Some diseases caused by pathogens are polio, cholera, mumps, rabies, malaria etc. Some microorganisms need a carrier to transmit diseases. Here, Anopheles mosquitoes are the carriers used by the protozoan Plasmodium vivax to transmit the disease to the host

Answer 2

Answer:

A few harmful microbes, for example less than 1% of bacteria, can invade our body (the host) and make us ill. Microbes cause infectious diseases such as flu and measles.Harmful Microorganisms examples: Escherichia coli O157:H7, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Streptococcus mutans, Salmonella enteric and Chlamydophila pneumonia.