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Gambaran Penggunaan Rapid Diagnostic Test Parasit Malaria di Desa Pasirmukti Kecamatan Cineam Kabupaten Tasikmalaya (Description of Malaria Parasite Rapid Diagnostic Test Utilization in Pasirmukti Village District Cineam Tasikmalaya)
High mobility amongst mining workers, demanding officer of Cineam Public Health Center can perform rapid diagnosis to the workers. No wa days, many techniques are developed to detect the early transmission ofmalaria, beginsfrom the clinical to the molecular, one of that techniques are Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs).
This research has been conducted in the village ofPasirmukti district Cineam, Tasikmalaya in 2012. Objective of this paper is description RDT utilities as rapid diagnosing efforts on families who have family members as mine worker malaria endemic arcas. Inclusion criteria for this study werefamily who have and do not have family members rvere working as workers in malaria¬ endemic areas at 2011 or 2012. Respondents were willing to participate in this study would be taken [or examination RDT Respondents were willing to participate in this study amounted to 256 people, and 5 of them positive Plasmodium malaria based on RDTs screening. Respondents who positivefor malaria on RDTs test were 4 women with lower education background and work as a housewife, then a men with a background of secondary school education and are currently still as student. RDT is one ofthe malaria parasite tools which suitablefor use in the Pasirmukti Village district Cineam - Tasikmalaya. However keep in mind on how to storage and use in order to avoid errors bothfalse-positive and false-negatives test results.
Keywords: rapid diagnostic tests, malaria, Tasikmalaya
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