| screening for nipah virus infection in west kalimantan province, indonesia. | compared to other viruses, research on nipah virus has been limited in indonesia because attributable disease outbreaks have not been reported. however, nipah virus is a zoonotic biosafety level 4 (bsl4) agent, so strategic monitoring is prudent. farmer interviews and a serologic survey of 610 pig sera and 99 bat sera from west kalimantan province were conducted. farmers reported no recent or historic encephalitic or respiratory disease in themselves, their families, workers or pigs. the survey ... | 2010 | 19638160 |
| challenges for control of taeniasis/cysticercosis in indonesia. | taeniasis/cysticercosis has been reported from several provinces of indonesia: papua (=former irian jaya), bali, north sumatra, east nusa tenggara, south east sulawesi, lampung, north sulawesi, jakarta, west kalimantan, and east java. the highest level of endemicity of taeniasis/cysticercosis has been found in papua. recent surveys in jayawijaya district of papua in 2000 and 2001 showed that 5 of 58 local people (8.6%) harbored the adult tapeworm, taenia solium, whereas 44 of 96 people (45.8%), ... | 2006 | 16380290 |
| prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis e virus among apparently healthy humans and pigs in bali, indonesia: identification of a pig infected with a genotype 4 hepatitis e virus. | in indonesia where hepatitis e virus (hev) is believed to be highly endemic, only three outbreaks of hev transmission have been documented to date in restricted areas (west kalimantan and east java). a total of 1,115 serum samples collected from apparently healthy individuals in bali, lombok, and surabaya in indonesia in 1996 where epidemic hev transmissions have never been reported, were tested for igg class antibodies to hev (anti-hev). in bali, anti-hev was detected in 20% (54/276) of the tes ... | 2004 | 15042646 |