Malaria is one of the leading causes of mortality in risk populations such as infants, children, and pregnant women. Moreover, antimalarial drugs resistance, particularly Plasmodium falciparum malaria, has become a major problem in malaria control. South-East Sulawesi is a malaria endemic area where about 28,205 and 32,040 cases of malaria were reported in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Artes…
Filariasis (elephantiasis) is an infectious disease caused by the filarial worm infections ,which live in the channels and lymph nodes. Filariasis causes an acute and chronic symptoms and transmitted by various species of mosquitoes. Microfilariae live in the blood stream and lymph vessels and until now there has not been clear the source ofnutrients of microfilariae, whether from lymphatic flu…
Soil Transmitted Helminth (STH) adalah cacing golongan nematoda yang memerlukan tanah untuk perkembangan bentuk infektifnya. Di Indonesia golongan cacing yang penting dan menyebabkan masalah kesehatan masyarakat adalah Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, dan cacing tambang yaitu : Necator americanus dan Ancylostoma duodenale. Masalah kesehatan yang ditimbulkan akibat kecacingan adalah an…
Malaria remainsa public health problem in more than 100 countries. The prevalence of th is disease in the world is estimated at 300-500 millian clinical cases eachyear. Symptoms / clinical manifestations ofmalaria are varied. Manyfactors can affect the severity ofthe clinical man ifesta tions, including agent, host and environment. The aim of th is study was to determine which clinical symptoms…