Identifikasi Bentuk Tropozoit untuk Menentukan Jenis Parasit Penderita Malaria yang Datang Berobat di Puskesmas Perawatan Lawe Sumur Kota Cane Aceh Tenggara

Abstract

Malaria is an infectious disease, especially in endemic areas. Organisms that play a major role in malaria transmission were malaria parasites (called plasmodium) and female Anopheles mosquito. There were five types of plasmodium spesies that cause malaria in human, namely Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium knowlesi. Fix diagnosis of malaria can be determined if the microscopically malaria parasites are found in the blood patients via their thick blood preparations. This research used Descriptive Qualitative Method. The results of this observation, it was found Tropozoid in the thick blood preparations of two patients resulted from the infection of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax.