Kabupaten Hulu Sungai Utara merupakan kabupaten endemis fasciolopsiasis, yaitu penyakit cacing trematoda usus yang menginfeksi manusia. Fasciolopsiasis disebabkan oleh salah satu cacing trematoda spesies Fasciolopsis buski. Berdasarkan siklus hidupnya cacing trematoda melewati siklus hidup yang kompleks, pada tahap serkaria harus berkembang dalam siput air tawar tertentu sebagai hospes perantar…
ABSTRACT: Background: Helminthiasis is a neglected disease that lack of attention both prevention and handling. Even Though helminthiasis is tent not to be deadly disease but it can reduce the nutrition that influence the growth and mental of the children. For the adult it brings oot the reducing of productivity. That's why it is very important to determine helminthi…
Helmintiasis generally caused by worms from Soil Transmitted Helminths group (STH) such as Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Hookworm, and Enterobius vermicularis from non STH group. Helmintiasis typical case occurred in South Kalimantan was caused by Fasciolopsis buski. But in a survey by the Indonesian agency for Vector Born Disease Research and Development Tanah Bumbu in 2008-2009 f…
Buski intestinal worm disease (fasciolopsiosis) is an endemic disease in some villages in the Hulu Sungai Utara district. Since the discovery of the case in 1982 until recently, the fasciolopsiosis prevalence has not showed a declining trend. Even in some periods it seems to rise, despite mitigation efforts continue to be implemented through various surveys, which ended with the drugs administr…