Fendy Purwanda and Yufan Fibriawan and Dyar Sasmito and Fatkhunisa Rahmawati and Prihartini Widiyanti (2012) Tuberculosis Counter (TC) as The Equipment to Measure the Level of TB in Sputum. Indonesian Journal of Tropical and Infectious Disease, 3 (2). pp. 83-85. ISSN 2085-1103

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Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This disease is the third killer disease after cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases, and is also he number one killer disease in a group of infectious diseases. This is partly due to the late handling and a non real time detection, both of which will inhibit the therapy which yields a large number of microorganisms in the body, and will eventually complicate the recovery. Based on this phenomenon, we offered an alternative solution for detecting the sum of microorganism using Tuberculosis Counter, a tool used to count the number of Tuberculosis bacteria in the patient's sputum. Technically, the patient's sputum preparat was screened using the TCS230 color sensor that was able to filter the color of the preparat. Tuberculosis bacteria in the stained sputum Ziehl-Niellsen preparat was colored red, while the other was colored blue. By utilizing these optical phenomena, the TCS230 color sensor was supposed to filter the red color in the preparat. By using regression equation measurement, we gained the equation which then correlated the bit value as an output of the sensor with the number of Tuberculosis bacteria. Then, the digitalization process yielded the real time and accurate data of Tuberculosis bacteria.

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