Schistosomiasis masih menjadi masalah di kesehatan masyarakat di daerah endemis. Di Indonesia schistosomiasis hanya ditemukan di Provinsi Sulawesi Tengah yaitu Dataran Tinggi Napu dan Dataran Tinggi Bada, Kabupaten Poso serta Dataran Tinggi Lindu, Kabupaten Sigi. Buku ini merupakan tindak lanjut dari hasil penelitian dan pertemuan lintas sektor yang dilaksanakan oleh Balai Penelitian dan P…
Malaria is found scattered throughout the islands, especially in eastern Indonesia. Each year about 2.5 million people died, mostly children under five years old. Recently, malaria remains a cause of death of infants, toddlers and pregnant women. It also decreases productivity of infected person and tend to increase over the year. The plasmodium infection causes immune response of host whic…
Malaria is a public health problem in Indonesia. One of the problems encountered in the elimination of malaria is the resistance of Plasmodium against antimalaria drugs. Artemisinin (ACT) is aclass of antimalarial drugs that are schizonticide sesquiterpenes lactone blood for Plasmodium falciparumand P. vivax. ACT is a drug of choice for treatment in the malaria elimination program, due to the w…