Dentist's profession high risks to go through musculosceletal disorders covering the lower and upper parts of backbone, shoulders and wrists. From various researches being done, pravalens of musculosceletal disorders to dentists is high enough moving between 25-85%. The conditions may happen because of the dentists position while handling patiens is not in ergonomics positions. To reduce the ea…
Background: Tabalong Regency represents one of filariasis endemic area in South Kalimantan Province. Endemicity of filariasis in Tabalong is identified from finger blood survey and clinical symptom of filariasis (i.e. lymphadenitis and retrograde lymphangitis) among the residents in 28 villages. This article discusses the situation of filariasis in the district of Tabalong during the period 199…
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…
The intestinal infection caused by amoeba is one of the three diarrhea causes appears to be a public health problem with high incidence in the community. Amebiasis is caused by Entamoeba histolytica, can be differentiated from non pathogen Entamoeba hartmanni and Entamoeba coli. Morphologically of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar are very similar. However, based on the diagnosis utili…