Pengelompokan Genotip, Serologi Dan Supertipe Gene HLA Kelas I Pada Suku Jawa, Indonesia

Gen Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) berperan penting dalam sistim pertahanan tubuh manusia. Gen ini juga terkenal sebagai gen yang paling polimorfik dalam struktur genom manusia. Oleh karena itu identifikasi gen HLA sangat penting dilakukan pada tiap populasi termasuk populasi suku Jawa. Pada penelitian ini, telah dilakukan identifikasi genotipe HLA pada 237 subyek. Namun demikian, selain genotip, perlu juga dilakukan pengelompokan berdasarkan jenis serologi dan supertipe HLA. Makalah ini menyajikan pengelompokan gen HLA kelas I berdasarkan database yang umum dirujuk oleh peneliti-peneliti lainnya

Detection of Insecticide Resistance in Aedes Aegypti to Organophosphate in Pulogadung, East Jakarta

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a major public health problem in Indonesia. Jakarta is a capital city with the highest number of dengue patients. Among sporadic endemic areas in Jakarta, Pulogadung, a district of East Jakarta, is one of endemic areas of this disease. The primary strategy for the control of DHF is based on reducing population densities of the main mosquito vector Aedes aegypti. Organophosphate is an insecticide that has been used for more than 25 years in dengue vector control program. The long term used and sublethal dosage of this insecticide can induce resistance. This laboratory study used microplate test and ELISA reader to determine the increase of alfa- esterase activity in Aedes aegypti larvae for detecting the resistance to organophosphate. Resistance pattern of Ae aegypti to organophosphate insecticide in RW 01 Pulogadung was shown to be: 23% high resistant, 33% medium resistant and 44% sensitive. This result was highly related to local community behavior where we found that the use of insecticide spray by the people was very low (8.8% of the sample). We found that the people who used insecticide spray were only 8.8% of the sample. Therefore, organophosphate still can be used in this area to control the Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in the future. Based on resistance pattern of Ae aegypti to organophosphate insecticide in RW 01 Pulogadung, we can conclude that organophosphate still can be used in this area to control the Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in the future