Abstract Various plants products including seeds are an important source for vitamins, minerals, proteins, and energy. Predominantly they are eaten fresh and uncooked or even if it they are cooked; they are handled in un-hygienic manner that change them to a major source of intestinal infection. This study aimed to assess the parasitic contamination in roasted groundnut, nabag, and tasali sold by street venders at Khartoum state, Sudan at the period from July 2019 to January 2020. A total of...
ABSTBACT This study evaluated the association of HXV-1 infection with some other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among femaIe commercial sex workers. BIood samples were collected from 250 female commercial sex workers in Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria and tested for the presence of HEV antibodies using ELJSA and Western blot. Endocervical and high vaginal swab samples were also collected for microscopy and culture. The prevaIence of HIV-1 infection among CSWs in Ibadan, Nigeria was 25.6% wit...
Abstract: Banana production in Kenya has been on the decline due to among other factors, pests and disease of which banana weevil is major. Although, entomopathogenic fungi such as Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae have been used successfully to control various agricultural and pasture pests, lack of effective application system limits their wider application.This study therefore seeks to evaluate the potential of utilizing the fungus to control the banana weevil using infected w...
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY All microorganisms are ubiquitous in nature and their interactions with plants, and animals and humans has been recognized for centuries. Some of these interactions are beneficial to the host as in the case of biotransformation such as fermentation and the production of antibiotics. Penicillin, which is one the most famous antibiotics drugs in the world, derived from a common fungus known as Penicillium and it is used to control disease in human and animal population...
ABSTRACT Solanum acueastrum Dunal. plant (Solanaceae family), growing in most parts of tropical Africa down to South Africa, has been shown to have some chemotherapeutic value. The fruit and leaf of S. aculeastrum is used for treating various diseases like jigger wounds, swelling joints in fingers, bronchitis, enlarged spleen, rheumatism, gangrene, gonorrhea, and other inflammatory-related ailments. Scientific studies conducted in S. Africa have also validated that S. aculeastrum fruit extrac...
ABSTRACT Qualitative and quantitative predictions of reservoir properties and geometries beyond well control are vital to understanding the intrinsic characteristics of subsurface formations. Using well log data, 3D Seismic data, Geostatistical simulations, reservoir characterization, modeling via multivariate analysis was carried out for and lateral predictions on data set obtained from Liaohe field, western sag, Bohai Bay, Northern China. This sag is an intra-cratonic basin of Archean to Re...
ABSTRACT More than 35% of infants residing in Chulaimbo regions are infected with Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) by six months of age, typically when maternal antibodies are expected to provide protection to the infants before they develop their own denovo antibodies. It has been reported that maternal immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies get transferred to the fetus from the second week of gestation and reach maximum levels by the third trimester. Transplacental transfer of these antibodies may be ...
ABSTRACT In high Plasmodium transmission regions, malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum is the leading cause of malaria-related morbidity and mortality among children under the age of 5 years. Severe malaria anaemia (SMA) is the most common cause of malaria burden in holoendemic P. falciparum transmission regions such. Although the mechanisms underlying development of SMA are poorly understood, direct and indirect lysis of erythrocytes, suppression of erythropoiesis, erythrophagocytosis, dy...
ABSTRACTThe present study is to isolate fungi from rhizosphere of Moringa oleifera and screen them for the production of some very important enzymes such as amylase and protease. Twenty fungi were isolated from the soil sample from five different farms using pour plate method. The isolates were then identified based on their colonial morphology and microscopic features in wet mount and Lactophenol Cotton Blue staining. All the isolates were screened for amylase and protease production by star...
ABSTRACTIn this research work, Mathematical Model for Measles Transmission Dynamics in LuweeroDistrict of Uganda, SVEIR model was developed and analyzed. The model consists of five nonliner ordinary differential equations. The effective reproductive number, (the number ofsecondary infections when a single effective individual is introduced into a population where aproportion is protected) was obtained. Further the disease free and endemic equilibrium whereobtained and analyzed for stability. ...
ABSTRACT Malnutrition increases goats’ susceptibility to diseases thereby hindering their profitable production. Low calorie diet and infection have impact on health and survival of livestock. The influence of Graded Dietary Energy (GDE) on dynamics of Trypanosoma congolense (Tc) infection in goats is not fully elucidated. The influence of GDE levels on Tc infection in West African Dwarf (WAD) goats was therefore investigated. A preliminary survey for trypanosomes involving 675 goats was c...
ABSTRACT Buruli ulcer remains a neglected tropical disease endemic in Africa especially Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. It is a necrotizing skin and soft tissue infection caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans which produces mycolactone which causes adverse effects associated with disease in humans. Other mycolactone producing bacteria (MPMs) have been identified to cause granulomas in fish and frog. There are limited advanced genetic tools for studying transmission of the diseases and for carrying out...
The purpose of this research work is to isolate and identify Using ID 32C API kit and to determine the antifungal sensitivity profile of fungi isolated from the mother and child dump site Akure, Ondo state, Nigeria. Ten isolates (Yeast, Aspergiliusflavus, Aspergiliusniger, Fusariumsolani, Candida albucan, Candida kruise, Phytoptera, Rhizopusstolonifer, Trichodermhorizianum,Fusariumvortezelium) were used for this research work.Potato Dextrose Agar was used to isolate and prepared for enume...
ABSTRACTThis study was conducted to examine the fungi present in spoilt onion bulb. Five different sample of spoilt onion bulb were blended together and suspended in sterilized distilled water which was used to inoculate Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA). Four different fungi were isolated from the sample and the morphological characteristics shows that the isolate belong to the following genera: Alternaria sp., Aspergillius sp., Penicillium sp., and Rhizopus sp. These fungi may have been respons...
ABSTRACT Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by trematode worms. The most prevalent species of the worm in Kenya is Schistosoma mansoni. The disease is endemic in parts of Nyanza, Eastern and Coast provinces. Its prevalence in primary school children in Asembo area near Lake Victoria in Rarieda district of Nyanza province is about 17%. Children are more susceptible to infection than adults and thus bear a greater burden of schistosomiasis in terms of morbidity and intensity of infe...