Generally, Salmonella has parasytic characteristic for human and animal. It was identified as the most pathogenic microbe among enterobacteriaceae. Based biology nomenclature, 2,252 serovar have been derived from monospecies of Salmonella enterica. In developing country including Indonesia, typhoid fever causing more than 100 death/100,000 population/year, this number even higher for non-typhoi…
Aging may affect functional and structural changes of the urinary tract which modify the response against infection. Structural changes in elderly such as prostate hypertrophy, urinary tract stone, the use of catheter, and the presence of cystoceles should be treated properly. Attention should be paid on functional abnormalities in elderly may also play a role in the changes. Those factors make…
Thirty four urine speciment of suspected cases of urinary tract infection (34 male and 74 female) were examined. Diagnosis of bacteriury was made using clony counting method. There were 44 female and 12 male urine speciment who show positive result. Is also show that the most common cause of urinary tract infection both for male and female is Staphylococcus aureus. About 83.3 percent urinary tr…
A case of HIV infected Indonesian baby girl born from an HIV positive mother is reported. This is the first HIV infected child reported in Indonesia. The diagnosis was based on the positive DNA HIV and HIV culture in the baby's blood taken at 3 days old. At this time the baby is still asymptomatic. Despite this we gave her prophylactic treatment against pneumocystis Carinii infection to prevent…
The human has developed a variety of immunologic defense for bearing with many different characteristics of bacteria. This defence mechanisms were provided by natural immunity, spesific immunity or both. Two types of pathogenic microorganisms illustrates the main feature of immunity to microbes: extracellular bacteria and intracellular bacteria. Extracellular bacteria such as staphylococcus, St…