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…
Nifedipine is a drug comonly used for the treatment of coronary heart disease and many other cardiac disorders. This drug inhibits the calcium ion from entering the cell membrane and smooth muscle by way of calcium channel, resulting in negative inotropic, negative chronotropic, and lowering the AV conduction. The highest incidence of its side effect is an excessive vasodilation which has been …
A longitudinal survey was conducted in subdistrict Tanjungsari to study postnatal growth of infants, from 0-2 years of age. The birth cohort were the pregnancy outcomes of a pregnancy cohort born during the period of January 1, 1988-December 31, 1989. Subject were all singleton and live-born infants. Out of 4,108 singletons, anthropometric measurements of 3,813 liveborn infants who were eligibl…
Nowadays eye defect caused by accident or job is increasing paralel with the speedy development of industries. There are many eye sight abnormalities that cause visual deficiency beside other eye diseases, as the result of job. In the eye Department, General Hospital, Medical Faculty Christian University of Indonesia, the case of strange thing found in cornea becomes very often to be found. Vis…