Masa pandemi Covid-19 merupakan situasi yang memberikan dampak cukup luas dalam berbagai aspek, salah satunya adalah penelitian, pengembangan, dan kajian kesehatan. Di masa ini fungsi tersebut merupakan salah satu komponen penting dalam mendukung upaya penanganan pandemi Covid-19, terutama memberikan saran perbaikan kebijakan yang berbasis bukti. Ini merupakan tantangan tersendiri, khususnya da…
Parasite resistance to antimalarial drugs is an obstacle to malaria elimination. In Plasmodium vivax, up to now, a marker to distinguish between resistant and susceptible is no available yet. Identify Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP) in P. vivax for multidrug resistance (pvmdr1)is potential approach due to pvmdr1 gene is orthologous to the pfmdr1 of P.falciparum, have been related to multi…
Positive control of Plasmodium spp. is needed in identification of malaria species using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method. The limitedness of malaria positive control encourages us to develop the cloning method to multiply Plasmodium spp. DNA particularly P.vivax, P. malariae, and P. ovale that are still unable to be cultured continuously. DNA product of single round and nested PCR were u…
Quality assurance of malaria microscopy is an important issue in health service and health research for a better case management. In monitoring Dyhydroartemisinin-Piperaquine, quality assurance was a part of this research activities at sentinel sites in Kalimantan and Sulawesi. This activity was carried out to confirmed diagnosis of malaria cases that could be analysed, and to evaluate the skil…
Treatment failure in falciparum malaria may be caused by parasite resistant to antimalarial drug or new infection. Polymorphism genetic marker of P. falciparum namely MSP1, MSP2 and GLURP locus genes in the population should be identified as a baseline to distinguish the cause of treatment failure. A nested Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method was applied to each locus gene separately. A tota…