Air is an environmental medium where microbe such as bacteria, viruses,and fungi can live and may infect exposed people. As the microbes requireappropriate condition to live and grow, particular physical environment of airmay associate with microbial density rate. To determine this association, across-sectional study has been conducted in in-patient wards of MakassarPublic Hospital of Hajj. Qua…
Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is an infectious disease caused by dengue virus with the widest spread in the Asian region. In Indonesia, every year is always an outbreak in some provinces, the largest occurred in 1998 and 2004 with the number of patient mortality by 79 480 people with 800 people. To know the risk factor for dengue transmission in Cirebon District that had a high DHF cas es, …
At the time of high vector populations and malaria transmission is in progress, it is necessary to use insecticides to control vector using the house spraying. To get the results as objective the eradication of the vector that is able to suppress the vector population so that no longer play a role in malaria transmission, the insecticide used should be effective against mosquitoes and the mosqu…
Since the territory is divided with the province of Banten, in West Java there are five regencies that defined as malaria endemie area, there are Ciamis, Tasikmalaya, Garut, Cianjur and Sukabumi. Sufferer, concentrated in southern coastal areas (Indonesian Ocean) starting from the beach of Kalipucang at Ciamis up to coast of Cikakak at Sukabumi which borders the province of Banten and also moun…
Background: The increase in the homocysteine levl is related to the heightening of blood pressure and hypertension risk. Hyperhomocysteinemia encourages the production of free radical which can oxidize lipid. Lipid peroxidation can be prevented by several antioxidant such as vitamin C and E. Objective: This study is aimed at finding out the nature of the interaction effect between homocysteine …
Abstract: Malarial parasite, Plasmodium, has been reported resistant to commonly used antimalarial drugs, such as chloroquin. Plants of Artocarpus genus are known to have high content of flavonoids. One of interesting bioactivitics of Artocarpus flavonoids is their antimalarial activity. This research is to investigate the potency of secondary mctabolites in the heartwood and root bark of Artoc…
ncidence of anemia in women in developing countries is still high, that is, around 43%. This incidence rate is far more higher that that I industrial countries , which is ranged between 10-12%. The prevalence of iron deficiency anemia is still high, particularly in developing countries. The cause of the high prevalence of iron deficiency anemia is not known, since it involves various factors. T…