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DEFORMITY AMONG LEPROSY
PATIENTS IN SITANALA LEPROSY
HOSPITAL TANGERANG
Petrus Tarusaraya, Paulus Wah-
yudi Halim
Sitanala Leprosy Hospital. Tangerang,
Indonesia
During March 1996, 1153
leprosy patients attended the
OPD (Out Patient Department)
Sitanala Leprosy Hospital in
Tangerang. West Java. 113 pa-
tients were new cases and 84 of
them had deformities (74.34%).
The old cases with deformities
were 761 cases (73.17%) out of
1040 cases, The majority of the
cases with deformities were
male - 618 out of 809 cases
(76.39%); and in female 227 out of
344 cases (65.99%). Most of the
deformities were found in the
productive age group 19-55
years (7o.10%).
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WATER
BUFFALO LEPROSY AND HUMAN
LEPROSY IN SULAWESI
Iwan T. Budiarso
Department of Pathology. Faculty of
Medicine, University of Tarumanagara
Jakarta
Lepra bubalorum or leprosy
in water buffaloes, is an exotic
disease in buffaloes. It is a very
interesting phenomenon in ve-
terinary medicine because until
to date it has been found only in
Indonesia. Kok and Rusli (1926)
has published their first report in
1926 describing the disease in
Java. Since then the diagnosis
of leprosy has been established
by histological examinations in
about 146 water buffaloes (Lobel,
1934). It has also been found in
Holstein-Freisen cow (Ressang
and Titus, 1960), one case in
Ongole breed and another in
an unidentified cow breed. For
leprosy infection in bovine, Kra-
neveld and Roza (1954) proposed
to use the name Lepra bovina.
Label (1934) was the first scientist
who brought the attention of this
unusual disease to the interna-
tional scientific world. His exten-
sive works gave us a clear
description of the clinical signs
and symptoms,histopathological
changes and the microbiologi-
cal arrangement of the acid fast
baccili of the infectious agent in
the affected tissues. The changes
found in the cutaneous tissue of
these animals resembled to those
found in the skin of lepromatous
lesions in humans. The rod-shape
bacteria which is acidfast, are
aiways present in the nodules of
the diseased animals.
In Central Sulawesi (Celebes),
leprosy in humans was found as
the second most prevalent
chronic diseases after pulmonary
tuberculosis. It is interesting to
know that apparently human
leprosy was also found in great
numbers in the same area where
leprosy in water buffaloes was
found frequently. This phenome-
non is an interesting subject to be
investigated whether the genus
of the bacteria found in humans
and that in water buffaloes have
the anthropozoonotic properties.
Up to now there are no studies
on the microbiological structure
of this bacterium in water buffa-
loes, their biological and immu-
nological characteristics.
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SECOND REPORT OF AIDS RELATED
ATTITUDES AND SEXUAL PRACTICES
OF THE JAKARTA WARIA (MALE
TRANSVESTITES) IN 1995
Imran Lubis, John Master, A.Munif,
Nancy Iskandar, Myrna Bam-
bang, Alex Papilaya, Runizar
Roesmin*,S.Manurung**, R. Gra-
ham***
AIDS and STD Prevention Program ,Indo-
nesian Public Health Association, * WHO
Consultant on AIDS, Indonesia. Social
Dept. Jakarta Municipality, Virology
Program. NAMRU-2 Jakarta, Indonesia
As the second part of a com-
munity based educational cam-
paign to convey the risk of HIV/
AIDS to commercial sex workers
in Jakarta, from May-July 1995, a
total of 253 male transvestites
(Waria) were questioned on their
sexual behavior patterns and their
knowledge and attitude toward
HIV/AIDS. In the previous report,
1991-1993, there was one out of
830 Waria found HIV positive in
November1993. In this study, 1995,
a total of two out of 253 Waria
were confirmed of HIV infection
in July 1995. Despite of the
increase of HIV case, most of
them still have incorrect know-
ledge on HIV/AIDS transmission
mode, they are still practicing
high risk sexual attitudes such as
exchange partner rote of 5 man
per three weeks, low condom
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