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SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
CAUSED BY FUNGI, PROTOZOA
AND PARASITES
Max Joseph Herman
Pharmacy Research and Develop-
ment Centre, Health and Research
Development Board, Department of
Health, Jakarta, Indoensia
Fungi, protozoa, and
parasites may cause Sexually
Transmitted Diseases other than
those caused by bacteria,
mycoplasms, chla-mydia, as
well as viruses. They are sexually
transmitted in diseases such as
candidiasis, trichomo-niasis,
giardiasis, amebiasis, pedi-
culosis pubis and scabies. Most
of fungal vaginitis are caused by
Candida spp. and the main
treat-ment for all forms of
diarrhoeae caused by enteric
protozoa is re-placement of
electrolytes and bo-dy fluid.
Despite not all STDs require
contact tracing, it is better to
pre-vent and lower transmission
by avoiding sexual intercourse
(espe-cially with multiple
partners), con-tact with persons
who show symp-toms or have
lesions, oro-anal- genital
contact and use barrier-
method contraception.
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MANAGEMENT ON TINEA
GLABRO-SA AND DEVELOPMENT
OF NEW ANTI FUNGAL DRUGS
M. Cholis
Dept. of Dermatovenereology,
Faculyy of Medicine, Brawidjaja
UniversityIDr. Saiful Anwar Hospital,
Malang, East Java, Indonesia
Tinea glabrosa or ringworm
of the glabrous skin represents
cuta-neous infection by
dermatophyte. The diagnosis of
T. glabrosa is made by the
finding of typical clinical
features and is confirmed by
direct microscopy or culture of
skin scrapings. Topical
antifungals remain the most
commonly re-commended
treatment. Newer al-ternative
topical antifungals in-clude
morpholines and allylamine
derivatives. The newer oral
azoles such as fluconazole, or
itraco-nazole and terbinafine
are now the preferred oral
treatment for extensive or
severe T. glabrosa ra-ther than
griseofulvin. The modern
formulations fully meet the
require-ments: well tolerated,
small risk and acting specifically
against relevant pathogens.
In addition to treatment
some other management
measures are generally helpful.
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BIOSTATIC ACTIVITIES OF TRADI-
TIONAL FOOD WRAP Cordyline
fruticosa AND Hibiscus macro-
phyllus COMPARED WITH
NIPAGIN-NIPAZOL
Anis Yohana Chaerunissa, Zainal
Alim, Supriyatna
Dept. of Pharmacy, Faculty of
Mathe-matics and Physical
Sciences, Padja-djaran University,
Bandung, Indonesia
A research on biostatic
activity of Cordyline fruticosa
and
Hibiscus macrophyllus
leaves which com-monly used
as traditional food wrap had
been carried out.
The biostatic activity to be
de-termined is on Bacillus
cereus, Es-cherichia coli,
Salmonella typhosa and
Staphylococcus aureus, com-
mon bacteries in food decom-
position.
The result showed that the
best antimicrobial activity was
given by C. fruticosa extract at
25 mg weight per 6 mm disk
against E. coli.
Compared to
Nipagin-Nipazol (9:1), the effect
of C. fruticosa extract at 25 mg
weight per disk was equivalent
to 1,1843 mg; hence, 1 mg
Nipagin-Nipazol (9;1) was
equivalent to 21,1 1 mg. C.
fruticosa extract.
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