Journal of Ultimate Public Health
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2019): November 2019

Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Indonesia

Audira Budiantari (Unknown)
Dian Handayani (Unknown)
Damas Andhika (Unknown)
Al Asyary (Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Nov 2019

Abstract

Tuberculosis is one of contagious disease that is caused by the germ of Mycobacterium class, which is Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. The transmission of the tuberculosis infection would happen if someone breathes the air containing thick saliva of the infected. When sneezes, a patient spreads out the germ into the air in form of sputum splotch. One cough could produce around 3000 sputum splotches. The method used in this research is the method of scientific papers investigation, which are two papers in search. The result of the research shows that the patient of Extrapulmonary TB mostly are in group of productive age with gender characteristics between male and female are both having same risk level.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jump

Publisher

Subject

Health Professions Immunology & microbiology Medicine & Pharmacology

Description

Jump Health is a peer-reviewed academic journal of studies in public health science and learning published biannually in May and November. Given that the journal prioritizes research reports in Jump Health, viewpoint articles in the same field will be considered for publication. ...