Dengue fever (DF) is still a health problem in Indonesia where primary DF ussually gives less symptom then secondary DF. DF had been known to assail on liver cells (hepatitis) that gives increase Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST) and Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) enzymes level, and dengue hepatitis can be serious until fatal. Therefore increased level of transaminase in DF (primary or secondary…
Oengue Fever (OF) is still a health problem in Indonesia where primary OF usually gives less symptoms then secondary OF. OF give various abnornalities in laboratory test results in Complete Blood Count I CBC (e.g. herno¬concentration, thrombocytopenia, leucopenia), urine examination (e.g. albuminuria), or detect in liver function test (e.g. increase of transaminases enzymes). Oifferentiation b…
The incidence rate of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) disease in Indonesia is increasing over years. DHF outbreaks hap pen in many provinces of Indonesia. West Java is a DHF endemic province. Nearly all districts/municipalities at the West Java Province are endemic areas and have reported DHF outbreaks. Factors supporting high incidence rate of DHF are tropical climate of Indonesia and the cir…
Dengue hemorrhagic fever is an infectious disease resulting spectrum of clinical manifestations that vary from the lightest, dengue fever, hemorrhagic fever and dengue fever are accompanied by shock or dengue shock syndrome. Its caused by dengue virus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. The case is spread in the tropics, especially in Southeast Asia, Central America, America and the Caribbean, …
A cross sectional study was carried out to determine health seeking behaviour of dengue patient in Ciamis district. Subjects were 80 dengue patient's care taker chosen by purposive sampling. Data was presented descriptively. The result showed based on the first place of treatment, pattern of treatment seeking behavior were identified the most common one was using public hospital as the first st…
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, …