Entomophobia and delusional parasitosis are two different conditions associated with excessive fear of arthropods such as insects and other parasites, which causes psychological disorders. So far entomophobia cases are rarely reported in Indonesia. This paper reports of a woman who previously diagnosed as cutaneous myasis caused by insect's larvae. Physically she was recovered after treatment, …
The existence of house dust remind us to the allergic respiratory disease and bronchial asthma. A preliminary report of several fungi isolated from the women labourer boarding house's dust has been done. The aim of the study was to investigate the fungi type in the dust. The investigation was done from May 2008 to September 2008, by isolating and inoculating the dust on the Sabouraud dextrose a…
Dengue hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by dengue virus which is transmitted by Aedes aegepti L. mosquito as the vector. One method for the control of the Aedes aegypti population is inference to their lifecycle. A fully randomised study was aimed to investigate the effect of piper betle leaves' extract to the Ae. aegypti larvae's mortality.The concentration used in the five treatments wer…