Silvia Fitrina Nasution
Faculty Of Medicine, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah

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Parasitic Infections among The Refugee of The UNHCR in Ciputat, and Related Risk Factors to The Diseases Silvia Fitrina Nasution; Ela Laelasari
Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia Volume 16. No. 2. Tahun 2021
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang

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Parasitic infections are reported in the most recent years as the disease infected among the refugees from countries with war conflict in Asia and Africa. Several factors have reported as causative agents and routes of transmission of the disease. The objective of the study was to provide epidemiological data of parasitic infections among the UNHCR refugees with some aspects of socio-behavioral and medical history as risk factor to the disease. The design of the study was cross-sectional with a total sampling of the refugees visiting the Puskesmas Pisangan, Ciputat, South Tangerang. We conducted blood diff-count, microscopic examination, and rapid diagnostic tests for the blood; feces by microscopic;while for urine was assayed by dipstick and bacterial culture. The study revealed that there were evidences of parasitic infections in : one patient with positive malaria vivax, one positive patient with non-specific bacteria in urine and with an increased number of leucocyte in the blood (Leucocytosis), also two subjects with higher titer of thrombocyte in their blood (thrombocytosis). Meanwhile, the medical history and transmission profile of the diseases, cultural, social behavior, and other related risk factors to the diseases have shown no strong evidence as a potential disease’s transmission of the parasite from the refugees to their indigenous community.The study has concluded that the evidence of parasitic infections might be at risk of disease’s transmission and should be prevented by a proper response of health services.
PRELIMINARY STUDY OF WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI L3 LARVAE DETECTION IN CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS AS VECTOR POTENTIAL OF FILARIASIS IN ENDEMIC AREA OF SOUTH TANGERANG, BY UTILIZING PCR ASSAY FOR L3-ACTIVATED CUTICLIN TRANSCRIPT mRNA GENE AND TPH-1 GENE Silvia Fitrina Nasution; Chris Adhiyanto; Evi Indahwati
Indonesian Journal of Tropical and Infectious Disease Vol. 7 No. 3 (2018)
Publisher : Institute of Topical Disease Universitas Airlangga

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South Tangerang district is an endemic area for Wuchereria bancrofti filariasis with a prevalence rate of microfilaria (mf) at a range of 1 - 2.4% in 2008-2009. Culex quinquefasciatus plays an important role as the major vector of transmission for the parasite. It remains a problem on how to determine that the mosquitoe roles as a vector or disease transmitter when there is no evidence of filarial parasite larvae 3 (L3) by the microscopic examination. In assessing the transmission risk of the filarial parasite, a DNA-based detection method was carried out to specifically detect the presence of W. bancrofti infective L3 larvae in the mosquitoe. The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) was performed to detect a specific DNA obtained from W. bancrofti L3 larvae in a very low number or low antigen titer. The assay was purposed as preliminary study to detect the presence of L3 filarial of W.bancrofti in Cx. quinquefasciatus by utilizing the expression of L3-activated cuticlin transcript mRNA gene and tph-1 gene. The result of PCR based analysis of mosquitoes collected from the suggested area showed that there is a low but detectable number of L3 infected mosquito with W. bancrofti. Among the 18 isolated DNA samples of mosquitoes, we found 7 positive samples (38.89%) with the presence of filarial larvae DNA expressing L3-activated cuticlin transcript mRNA and tph-1 genes, which determined as 123 bp for Wb-cut-1.2 and 153bp for tph-1. In contrast by microscopic result, we found no evidence of L3 larvae of the parasite in the mosquitoe’s dissecting samples. The PCR assay in our study was proven sensitive to detect the presence of Wb-L3 filarial larvae in Cx. quinquefasciatus