The aims of the study was to determine drug resistance rates in 30 tuberculosis patients previously have been treated with streptomycin (SM), isoniazide (INH), ethabutol (E) and rifampicin (R) in Pirngadi Hospital, Medan. Ninety-six percent of these patients showed resistance to one or more of the following 4 drugs SM, INH, E and RF. Resistance to E was encountered most (83.33 percent), followe…
Nuclear medicine is a diagnostic and treatment method making use of radioactive materials. Although there are a lot things not understandable yet, the usage and the benefits were internationally accepted. There are no absolute contraindications, and adverse reactions could hardly find. This paper discussed the indications, shortcomings, and superiority compare to other methods. Bone scintigraph…
Among the disputed parentage cases, there are some cases in which the examination of protein polymorphisms (blood groups, serum protein, erythrocyte enzymes typing and HLA antigens) and anthropological examination failed to get the conclussive results. In these cases the examination of DNA polymorphisms, such as chromosome examination, DNA fingerprint, VNTR, Amp-FLP and HLA-DQA examinations, us…
A cross section study on the nutritional status of 101 children in pre-elementary school was carried out (52 boys and 49 girls). The age ranged from 5 years 1 month to 6 years 5 months old. The nutritional status was evaluated by WHO-NCHS criteria, 57.8 percent of the boys were wellnourished, 21,1 percent were post malnutrion, 21.1 percent were underfed, girls 63.3 percent were wellnourished, 3…
A randomized, double blind, controlled field trial was carried out to evaluate the effect of 100.000 IU vitamin A supplement to loctating mothers on duration of free from acute respiratory infection among their infants. From 6 villages in rural-coastal Java, 382 mothers were randomly assigned as vitamin A group (172 mothers) and control group (210 mothers). The infants were followed-up weekly b…
A good nutrition status in the period of infancy is an essential factor to achieve optimum growth and development. Infant feeding is one of the most important factor to have good nutrition status. A cross sectional study was conducted at Kelurahan Kayu Manis to know the knowledge and infant feeding practices by interviewing the mothers. Respondents were chosen using cluser sampling. Out 106 res…