Resistance to chloroquine by Plasmodium falciparum in the Oksibil region of Irian Jaya was evaluated by in vivo testing in July 1994 among 44 patients. Study subjects ranged in age from 5 to 42 years. At day 7 of the test 10 subjects (23 percent) had persistent or recurrent asexual parasitemias. Among these infections, 8 were classified RII and 2 RIII levels of resistance on the basis of the po…
Sixty male rats with the age of two months, weight 160-170 g were divided into three groups i.e A, B and C each of 20 animals. Each rat was located in one cage. Group A was given stock-diet, group B and C were given either stock-diet 44 percent plus 56 percent cane sugar-diet 44 percent plus 56 percent cane sugar stock-diet 44 percent plus 56 percent brown sugar. Diet and drinking water were gi…
Rapid Assesment Procedures has been applied to explore kinds of food which related to the production of breast milk among locating mothers, traditional-midwives, key-persons and nutrition volunteer in Bogor. The study was also designed to compare the beliefs between rural and urban population. The study reveals that there are beliefs of foods which related to producing breast milk in rural as w…
A study was conducted to determine the effect of density and species mosquitoes larvae on the feeding Capability of Mesocyclops sp. Observations were conducted for 72 hours of exposure. In this study two densities and three species of first instar larvae were evaluated against Mesocyclops sp. The ratio used were respectively 25 : 50 and 25 : 75. The result showed that feeding capability of Meso…
Bacillus thuringiensis H-14 and Bacillus sphaericus H-5a5b are microbial agents showing high potency for vector control. They are highly specific to target insect, and do not produce any adverse environmental impact. Such agents would be very promising agents for vector control, especially vector of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Indonesia. The present studies aimed at observing the residual effe…
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…