The study was carried out in there different kinship areas: bilineal in West Java, patrilineal in Lampung and matrilineal in West Sumatera. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of sociocultural factors that may effect nutritional status. A total of 428 women in three study areas were interviewed and families were observed. The mean per capita expenditure was about the some in…
The Indonesia people still empirically use medicinal plants to overcome their diseases or maintain their health. One of the medicinal plants is Cassia siamea lamk (daun johar) used for treatment of fevers/ malaria and jaundice/hepatitis. A lot of people usually use it for long periods of time. It is preferable for medicinal plants to have no effect rather than toxic effects. Subchronic toxicity…
A study had been done in the city of Manado to indentify the possibility of existance of local malaria transmission in 1993-1994. This study had been carried out in collaboration between the Communicable Disease Research Centre, NIHRD with Faculty of Medicine UNSRAT, NAMRU-2 and Local Health Services. The results showed that local transmission occured in Meras/Tuminting village's coastal area a…
We reported the bacterial suscetibility pattern of 4.365 laboratory isolates during 1995. Fifty six species of bacteria were indentified, consisted of 11 gram positive spesies from 2002 isolates, and 45 gram negative species from 2,363 isolates. More than one fifth (22.96 percent) of the isolates, and 45 gram negative species from 2,363 isolates. More than one fifth (22.6 percent) of the isolat…
A study of the effect of wild tamarind (Leucaena leucocephala) leafs extract on clinical symptoms and histological changes in liver of mice (Mus musculus) was conducting in the laboratory. Each of four equal groups of mice was individually fed with an artificial diet, impregnated with the leaf extract, at doses of 0 percent (control), 20 percent, 40 percent and 60 percent w/w on daily basis. Da…
Arround 10 percent NIDDM patients will develope secondary failure every year. Acarbose could lower the absorbtion of glucose from the intestines. The aim of the study is to evaluate the benefit of acorbose as adjuvant treatment to NIDDM with secondary failure to glibenclamide. Patients were secondary failure to glibenclamide include to the study. The study was done in two phases. First phase: t…
The human has developed a variety of immunologic defense for bearing with many different characteristics of bacteria. This defence mechanisms were provided by natural immunity, spesific immunity or both. Two types of pathogenic microorganisms illustrates the main feature of immunity to microbes: extracellular bacteria and intracellular bacteria. Extracellular bacteria such as staphylococcus, St…
The outcome of antibiotic administration to overcome a particular infection depends on three interactive factors i.e., the drug, the patient and the causative pathogen(s). From the drug point of view there are two important factors i.e, the antimicrobial potency and the pharmacokinetic profile of the antibiotic being used. To obtain a satisfactory result, it is desired that the antimicrobial co…