Kelurahan Loktabat Utara merupakan daerah endemis Demam Berdarah Dengue (DBD) di Kota Banjarbaru. Kejadian DBD berkaitan erat dengan karakteristik habitat nyamuk Aedes aegypti. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan kondisi lingkungan dan kontainer dengan keberadaan jentik Ae. aegypti. Penelitian ini adalah observasional dengan pendekatan cross-sectional, populasi rumah pend…
Helmintiasis generally caused by worms from Soil Transmitted Helminths group (STH) such as Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Hookworm, and Enterobius vermicularis from non STH group. Helmintiasis typical case occurred in South Kalimantan was caused by Fasciolopsis buski. But in a survey by the Indonesian agency for Vector Born Disease Research and Development Tanah Bumbu in 2008-2009 f…
Background: High prevalence of worm infection in Indonesia (70-80%) partially identified as Soi! Transmitted Helminthes (STH) from Nematodes, but Cestodes and Trematodes is also found in Indonesia. Worm infection named as neglected diseases because it doesn't cause mortality although reduced the quality of human resources. It will be important to do research to get the worm infection database f…