Dengue hemmorrhagic fever remains to be a public health problems in Indonesia. The increase in the incidence of dengue may be attributed to two important factors, namely rapid mobility of the people and the increased frequency and spread of the human travel. Considering the high mortality and morbility, prompt diagnosis and treatment would be prerequisite in order to over come these problems. A…
An analytical study was conducted of 885 serum speciments from 14 different hospitals in Jakarta, that were submitted to Virology Laboratory at Communicable Disease Research Center, NIHRD, Jakarta, for dengue serology examination using HI test, in 1991. Only paired, acute and convalescence specimens, total of 689, fulfilled the criteria for the analysis. The positivity rate of these paired sera…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate dengue haemorhagic control programme which has been applied since 1982 and to find the alternative programme which can be use as an early warning system for DHF outbreak. The result shows that the insidence rate of dengue haemorrhagic fever are still very high and worst number of villages affected are also increase and in 1990 these is dengue outbreak in…
The incidence of dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) has been influenced by multiple factors, among other things; environment, behavior, health services, and genetic factor. Which factors have still their influence the incidence of DHF were remain uncertain. This case control study has been done to bring clarity this question. For study group, DHF patients has been used (clinical and serological ne…
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) which is caused by the dengue virus found to be endemic in Indonesia. Its morbidity and mortality rate were related to prevention measures, early diagnosis and prompt treatment. Prevention was effected by destroying the vector in the areas surrounding the patients and abiviously appropriate treatment could only be administered promptly after accurate diagnosis. Co…