Strongyloides stercoralis is a species of parasitic worm that causes a chronic infectious disease that attacks humans called strongyloidiasis. This species is found in many tropical and subtropical and endemic areas in many countries. Strongyloides stercoralis has a unique character as a parasitic nematode worm because it can have the ability to survive and replicate repeatedly in a host and last for decades without producing typical symptoms even without symptoms but potentially causing life-threatening infections through its spread and hyperinfection in human hosts who have a low immune system. The incidence of Strongyloides infection is often equated with hookworm infection, but the number is lower. Risk factors for this disease include a favourable climate, poor sanitation and barefoot habits on the ground. It is reported that around 30-100 million people worldwide are infected by this disease, but data on the prevalence of this disease are unknown in endemic countries not only in the Southeast Asian region that is known to be endemic for helminthiasis but in other regions. The prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis is estimated to be quite high if you look at the ecological and economic environment in the Southeast Asian country. read more

Acara MIB Forum yang berisi Kuliah Bersama, Diskusi Panel, Presentasi Oral dan Praktikum Bersama pada tanggal 16 Juli 2019; dilanjutkan dengan Workshop dan Hands On: Hewan Coba dengan Model Gagal Ginjal dan Fibrosis, Drug delivery berbasis Nanpartikel dan Deteksi Soil-Transmitted Helminth dengan PCR pada tanggal 17 Juli 2019.

Epidemiological surveillance in disaster areas has specific challenges from disaster types, categories, and areas. Epidemiology can be applied before, during and after a disaster. This should be often conducted where the environment changes after an extreme or drastic disaster with the support of minimal health facilities. An early detection approach to landslide events can be applied using a technology such as an existing early warning system (EWS) by installing sensors to detect and movement and environmental changes, in this case, namely temperature, humidity, rainfall and wind speed. This tool is needed to be able to optimize the surveillance method because it can be used as a media for environmental data related to health at the location. The EWS tool can support an active surveillance system in terms of data collection on health problems that occur in the endemic areas of a disease or disaster-prone areas. The active surveillance system can also use an application that can specifically record the community and the surrounding environment including being able to map the area. The process of epidemiological surveillance in disaster-prone areas will produce very large data so that data processing must also be supported by a specific system such as big data technology. It does not rule out the possibility if the data collected both before, during and after a disaster can make it a predictive model to find out the pattern of a disaster in disaster-prone areas and prevent an outbreak of a disease in endemic areas. read more

Parasitology is the study of organisms living within a specialized environment. The word ‘parasite’ is derived from the Greek words ‘para (meaning beside) and ‘sitos’ (meaning food). Parasites can be described as living organisms that are associated with food for all or part of their life-cycle. There is generally called the host as the organism that providing the food for the parasites. A parasite has at least one host per life-cycle. If there is more than one host per life-cycle, the host in which sexual maturity occurs is referred to as the definitive host and the other host/s are known as intermediate hosts. The study of parasites invariably involves firstly the biology of the parasite and secondly the biology of the host — as the parasite’s environment. read more