Descriptions of the “great teacher” as an inspiring figure are abundant in professional discourse, yet the biological and psychological processes that might underpin inspirational teaching, and sustain it across a working life, remain loosely specified. Interest in educational ne...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2026/v23i5585
Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) remain the dominant tool for malaria prevention across endemic Africa and Asia, yet residual transmission persists where dominant vectors feed outdoors, early in the evening, or on non-human hosts. Zooprophylaxis, the practice of exploiting livesto...
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Research Article10.9734/ajriz/2026/v9i3296
Background: Mosquito-borne diseases remain a major global public health challenge, necessitating environmentally sustainable vector-control strategies such as biosurfactant-based disruption of mosquito larval and pupal development in aquatic habitats. Aims: To reveal the effectiv...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2026/v15i4465
Aims: to reveal effective plant-based mosquito repellent products as personal protection. Discussion: Mosquitoes are among the most annoying hematophagy insects affecting human population. Mosquitoes are key vectors for severe diseases like malaria, dengue, lymphatic filariasis,...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2026/v15i1426
Aims: To analyze the polysaccharide property of capsular portion belongs to the incidiosa yeast, Cryptococcus neoformans. Discussion: Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated fungal pathogen that is acquired by human and animal hosts through inhalation of environmental infecti...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrb/2025/v15i6448
Aims: To introduce medically important protozoa through Medical protozoology for beginners Discussion: Protozoan diseases are still major global health problem which affect both humans and animals, especially in poverty tropical and subtropical regions. Malaria, African trypanoso...
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Research Article10.9734/ajriz/2025/v8i4219
Aims: to refresh the memory regarding OHS implementation in the Parasiology clinical lab. Discussion: around 380,000 workers or 13.7% of the 2.78 million workers die from work-related accidents and diseases. Furthermore, >374 million people are injured, wounded or become ill a...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2025/v14i2355
Aims: to describe aspects of specific health promotion which will strengthening parasitic infection prevention and control practices. Discussion: Health promotion is a dynamic and continuous process of enabling people to have increase control over and to improve their own health...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2025/v14i1344
Aims: to revisited the irreplaceability of practicum and laboratory classes for medical student and its benefit, even in the artificial intelligence (AI) era. Discussion: The transformative potential of AI in every aspect of human also reshape the pedagogy of medical education. I...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2024/v18i11783
Aims: To revisited the basic of biosafety applied to our Parasitology laboratory and describe our simple student’s centered practicum guide and preparation for use by medical or other health cluster students for their laboratory class activity in faculty of Medicine with the reve...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2024/v13i6320
Aims: intended to deepen our knowledge to date regarding parasites that might found in urine sediment as consequences of vaginal or fecal contamination during voiding Discussion: Urine in the bladder is a sterile waste product composed of water soluble nitrogen products. But duri...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2024/v13i3288
Aims: To rectify the application of negative staining using India Ink dye in order to visualize the opportunistic yeast, Cryptococcus neoformans and its capsule. Discussion: The yeast C. neoformans is generally considered an opportunistic fungal pathogen due to its propensity to...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2024/v13i3286
Aims: To revisited carefully previously published articles available in the internet regarding predilection site of Trichinella spp larvae including their pathogenesis and its potency. Discussion: By carefully reviewing previously published literature available in the internet re...
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Research Article10.9734/ajriz/2024/v7i2150
Aims: To differentiate morphologically and functionality of chitin bodies belong to Necator americanus (old world hook worm) vs. 2 pair of teeth belong to Ancylostoma duodenale (new world hook worm) Discussion: Anemia due to hookworms caused by persistent blood loss. Those micro-...
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Research Article10.9734/ajriz/2024/v7i2143
Aims: to briefly review the history of application of immersion oil and specifically in some Parasitology Microscopic examination. Discussion: One way of increasing the optical resolving power of the microscope is to use immersion liquids between the front lens of the objective a...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2024/v13i2274
Introduction: Microscope is an instrument for visualizing fine detail of an object so that observer can observe the object being examined in detail. The object of examination vary from cells (normal or pathologic), microorganism (such as parasite and bacterium), and even non biol...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2024/v13i1268
Aims: to describe the basis of partial rejection from the community regarding the government's plan to expand the range of releases of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes which have been inserted with the endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia spp. to reduce the incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fev...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v14i4316
Aim: To reveal the urgency to understand and augment the recognizance of the possibility existence of parasitic materials on cytological evaluation of urine. Discussion: Urine is always contemplated as an ideal diagnostic specimen due to its direct and easiness to collect that su...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v14i4305
Aim: To discuss about the specific characteristics of intestinal parasitic infection that contributes to the formation of stunting. Discussion: Intestinal parasites infection (IPI) are one of the global utmost health dilemmas, because they put certain vulnerable member of the pop...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v14i1278
Aims: The aim of this sharing of experience was to explore the foundational concepts of humility that helped medical students better understand and implement the principles of humility into his/her undergraduate medical education and also expressing it to the people they serve du...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i4462
Aim: To revisited four basic steps of scientific stage which consist of Problem, Hypothesis, Trial and Report. Discussion: Scientific stage is a series consists of four consecutive steps which provide scientific explanation or even answer to research question based on observation...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2023/v17i9519
Aim: To review recent findings in the context of the relation between intestinal parasitic infection (IPI) induce the host’s chronic immune activation and systemic inflammation that contributes to stunting. Discussion: To some extent, based on the parasite species (with the accou...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2023/v15i2285
Severe malaria occurs when previously uncomplicated malaria infections are then turn to be full blown and tangled by serious, single or multi-organ failures or abnormalities in the patient's blood or metabolism. Clinical deterioration can happen abruptly and unnoticed, due to the...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2022/v13i4294
Malaria is an infectious protozoan parasitic disease transmitted by Anopheles spp mosquito. As a disease entity, malaria is still a major global health problem due to its morbidity and mortality that endangered millions of individuals inhabitants in tropical region. Kidney derang...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2022/v11i3218
Aim: To reveal pre- exam cramming among pre-clinical medical students, what drives this practice, failure due to cramming and the problems and difficulties related to the act of cramming. Discussion: Cramming is common practice among struggling medical students. The prevalence of...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2022/v13i430186
Aims: To reveal the interaction between intestinal microflora and the protozoan parasite organisms and how it affect their host’s performance. Discussion: The vertebrate gastro-intestinal system contain wide array of diverse but dynamic bacterial microbiota population that has ub...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2022/v13i130290
The interaction of ectoparasite in correlation to its host’s skin is important. The extent of interaction somewhat makes these parasites able to survive in the harsh conditon of the host’s skin. Their existence mostly in the context of gaining their nutrition and perhaps continue...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2021/v8i330206
Malaria is a potentially fatal disease caused by Plasmodium spp. Transmission occurs via the bite of female mosquito, Anopheles spp. Epidemiologically, global number of malaria patient are located in Southeast Asia and Africa. Until nowadays, millions of people still living in en...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2021/v8i130194
Health education is important because of the need to promote health among members of the community, to maintain the health status and, if possible, to prevent people to get sick. Specific communities such as church members have unique characteristics that can facilitate health ed...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2021/v15i330270
Introduction: Medical students are future doctor candidates. They must learn about diseases, infectious and non-infectious, during their education period. What the students have to learn is being packaged in integrated blocks. Tutorial is one of the Problem Based Learning (PBL) m...
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Research Article10.9734/jamps/2021/v23i430232
Introduction: So far, study on medical student’s knowledge regarding human normal flora is not available in the internet. Normal flora is initially beneficial for their host, but what was once part of the normal flora can later become dangerous to their host, e.g become the agent...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i230148
Global systemic fungal infection, including meningeal cryptococcosis caused by the encapsulated yeast Cryptococcus spp, continue to rise in number, especially among HIV infected individuals. Infection occur through inhalation of spore which is abundant in the environment. Initial...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i130144
The number of the elderly is increasing globally, and as a consequence the number of geriatric health problems also increased, including parasitic infection. The skin and the GI tract were among the most common locations of parasitic infections of the elderly. Underlying biologic...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2021/v6i130183
Documenting an object seen in a light microscope is a challenge, especially in limited setting area, for an example when doing field trip for environmental sampling. Taking photographs directly using smartphone, or so called microscopic photography, is not easy. Here we proposed...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2020/v11i430135
Malaria is amongst the most prevalent and epidemiologically relevant global parasitic protozoan infections. It is infecting millions of people annually, especially in south east Asia and sub Saharan Africa. Its morbidity and mortality still cannot be controlled entirely and elimi...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2020/v5i330137
Malaria is a potentially fatal vector borne disease caused by the blood protozoan, Plasmodium spp. The number of species of Plasmodium spp continues to grow; even nowadays there is zoonosis based species that infect human. Morbidity and mortality still difficult to control, with...
Background/Aim: Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) is still a global major problem, affecting billion vulnerable people of marginalized and unfortunate communities from low to middle level social economic countries. Poor personal hygiene and sanitary practice facilitates its tr...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2020/v11i330133
Aims: To review previous electronic literature available on the internet regarding epidemiology of smoking among Indonesian women, and its associated factors with seeking for alternative management available in the internet. Study Design: A simple cross sectional study by systema...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2022/v19i230370
Robert Hotman Sirait, Trini Suryowati, Forman Erwin Siagian, Luana Natingkaseh Ahmad, Lusia Sri Sunarti, Muhammad Alfarabi, Marwito Wiyanto, Maria Basa Pamungka Natalia & Roni Serta Oktavia Hutabarat·Asian Journal of Medical Principles and Clinical Practice·2020
Background: The Elderly are very prone to Covid-19. Since very early, focus being targeted to change public behaviour. Preventing infection is a challenge, because of potency co-morbidities. Slowly, there is gradually change in condition and people being prepared to get ready for...
Background: Higher education faces a turbulent global transition—driven by participatory learning shifts, financial and geopolitical pressures, technological disruption, and mental health challenges—requiring adaptive, student-centered, and sustainable strategies for resilience....
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2026/v20i51353
Aim: to describe updated pleuropulmonary amebiasis diagnosis and management. Discussion: Pleuropulmonary amebiasis (PA) is the second most common complication of extraintestinal amebiasis. Pleuropulmonary complications occur in 7-20% of patients with amebic liver abscess (ALA) an...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2026/v47i11709
Aims: to propose the house dust mite’s hair or setae contribution of causing allergy in vulnerable people, and starting with its biological positioning among other insect. Discussion: House dust mites (HDM) are allergenic arthropods for atopic individuals. The most common specie...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2025/v14i4372
Aims: to evaluate Student’s and Lecturer’s Perception Related to the use of Latin Terms in Anatomy. Study Design: Cross-sectional study Place and Duration of Study: Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Kristen Indonesia, Jakarta-Indonesia, May-September 2021. Methodology: Using elect...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2021/v15i1230439
Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a severe public health problem and are caused by a range of pathogens, but most commonly by Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus saprophyticus. High recurrence rates an...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2022/v17i130321
Introduction: Bullous haemorrhagic dermatosis is a rare clinical disorder which is usually related to a treatment with unfractionated heparin (UFH) or low molecular weight heparin (LMWH), characterized by multiple intra-epidermal haemorrhages distant from the site of injection. P...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2021/v14i430139
Lusia Sri Sunarti, Yusias Hikmat Diani, Muhammad Alfarabi, Jap Mai Cing, Evy Suryani Arodes, Linggom Kurniaty, Forman Erwin Siagian & Alifa Hasna Ramadhani Fachly·Archives of Current Research International·2022
Aims: To analyze the practice of cramming among pre-clinical medical students during the remedial examination based on their gender and place of residence, along with a review of the literature on the factors that foster this practice. Study Design: Simple cross-sectional study....
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2022/v22i8545
Jap Mai Cing, Trini Suryowati, Nur Nunu Prihantini, Muhammad Alfarabi, Fri Rahmawati, Lusia Sri Sunarti, Forman Erwin Siagian & Zyachra Maulidya Sunandar·Asian Journal of Research in Biochemistry·2022
Aims: Due to the complexity of teaching new subjects to medical freshmen, especially in basic medical science, and the variability of the academic performance, we want to explore the difference of our student’s Biochemistry examination score based on their gender and place of res...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrb/2022/v10i230218
Aims: to explore the time that crammer start to study and the time of exam being held and relate this two with the result of the remedial exams which conducted electronically (computer based). Study Design: simple descriptive cross sectional study Place and Duration of Study: c...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2024/v21i4438
Ani Oranda Panjaitan, Silphia Novelyn, Ekarini Daroedono, Yasinta Putri Chairulnisa, Anastacia Justine, Iga Ayu Parandida, Yosephine Vania Wiharianti & Forman Erwin Siagian·Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medical Research·2024
Aims: To describe a simple basic complementary humanity act such as nursing home visit that can help a group of marginalized and abandoned elderly with no family who live together as residents of a non-profit nursing home feel better with simple but universal human touch and also...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2024/v25i1509