A case of HIV infected Indonesian baby girl born from an HIV positive mother is reported. This is the first HIV infected child reported in Indonesia. The diagnosis was based on the positive DNA HIV and HIV culture in the baby's blood taken at 3 days old. At this time the baby is still asymptomatic. Despite this we gave her prophylactic treatment against pneumocystis Carinii infection to prevent…
Hospital condition, especially indoor environment is a very importan factors in spreading of communicable disease. The aims of this study were to identify indoor air quality, and incidence of nosocomial disease. In special this study planned to identify kinds of bacteria, bacterial counts and number of surgery wound infections at Dr. Hospital Surabaya. Location of study was Dr. Soetomo Hospital…
Cancer is an abnormal growth of cells which may result in the invasion of normal tissue or the spead to distant organs. There are numerous ways how cancer patients become immunocompromised, by the cancer it self, by radiotherapy and chemotherapy and by medical intervention e.g operation and catheterization. Current cancer therapy regimens have resulted in greater numbers of cancer patients achi…
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…