ABSTRACT Background Rotavirus gastroenteritis is a major contributor to the overall burden of diarrhea disease in Africa. Close to 40% of hospital admissions are as a result of diarrhea in children below the ages of five years are traceable to rotavirus. There is incomplete immunity after infection; however repeated infections tend to be less severe than the severity of the first rotavirus infection. Methods The study estimated the effect of repeated episodes of the number of severe rotavirus...
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ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) is the occurrence of more than three episodes of Candida infection in the vulva and vaginal area of women in a year. Candida infection is a yeast infection caused by various fungal species in the Candida family. RVCC is a global health problem of women with higher burdens in women with immunocompromising comorbidities and those with low occupational, environmental and personal health hygiene. AIM: This study aimsat assessing the...
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ABSTRACT The motivation to study the influences of health literacy and sexually transmitted infections emanates from the fact that there is a high rate of infection of STIs and an associated death toll globally. The study, a cross-sectional design, in the University of Ghana employed quantitative methods using a survey approach to sample views from female students from various academic levels and across the humanities and Science disciplines. The study found that female students had apprecia...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Hepatitis B infection is still a global healthcare problem, especially in developing countries. The common routes of transmission of the virus are body fluids such as blood, semen, and vaginal secretions plus vertical transmission from a pregnant woman to her child (Pyrsopoulos, 2017). Hepatitis B (HB) is a serious viral infection affecting the liver and is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). It is infectious and the most common cause of chronic hepatitis, liver cir...
ABSTRACT Crickets are drawing interest as sustainable source of protein for food and feed worldwide. However, there is little information on microbial quality of edible crickets thus the need for a profound insight into their safety. The objective of the study was to determine the microbial load of two edible cricket species Scapsipedus marginatus and Gryllus bimaculatus and to evaluate the efficiency of different processing methods (boiling, sun-drying, freeze-drying, snap freezing and deep...
Abstract: Crickets are drawing interest as sustainable source of protein for food and feed worldwide. However, there is little information on microbial quality of edible crickets thus the need for a profound insight into their safety. The objective of the study was to determine the microbial load of two edible cricket species Scapsipedus icipe and Gryllus bimaculatus and to evaluate the efficiency of different processing methods (boiling, sundrying, freeze-drying, snap freezing and deep fryi...
NOROVIRUSNorovirus (NoV), causing the winter vomiting disease, is today recognized as the most important agent of acute human gastroenteritisThe etiology of diarrheas can involve several agents, such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Bacterial agents are relatively more important in developing countries, whereas viral agents are more relevant in industrialized countries. The importance of these agents is related to hygiene and sanitation conditions for the population1. In 1972, a 27-nm vir...
Abstract Trachoma, an infectious, preventable disease in early childhood has serious consequences of blindness in adulthood. The disease is more prevalent in developing countries and studies are going on in many African Countries to help eliminate it by the year 2020. Past studies in Africa indicates that the disease is prevalent in areas where the climate is much drier, hot and dusty. Further studies have proved that lack of water and an increase in the number of flies due to poor sanitary c...
ABSTRACT Background: Hand hygiene has been proven to be an effective way of ridding the hands of harmful pathogens which can be transmitted from person to person resulting in infection leading to morbidity and mortality. Newborns are particularly susceptible to infections due to their under developed immune system, a third of all neonatal mortality being due to infections. In Ghana, neonatal mortality remains high with the Volta Region having the highest neonatal mortality among the regions...
Abstract Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by Hepatitis C virus (HCV) which affects the liver . The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of HCV among patients with Diabetes type 2 in Marawi Al skary Hospital at Northern State The study was conducted during the period between march to July 2017. A total of ninety (n=90) blood specimens were obtained from 48 males and 42 females diabetic patients .Five ml of blood was collected .Sera were obtained by centrifugation ...
Abstract: This paper reports the experimental investigation of the corona discharge activity of punga oil under the influence of a local magnetic field and different voltage profiles (AC and DC voltages) using fluorescent fiber sensor as well as UHF sensor technique. The corona inception voltage (CIV) of punga oil is higher under negative DC voltage followed by positive DC and AC voltage, with a marginal reduction in its CIV magnitude observed on the impact of external magnetic field. The do...
Abstract Monkeypox is a DNA virus that belongs to the orthopox virus family with two distinct clades known as West African and Congo Basin. This virus was initially discovered in crab-eating Macaques in 1958 and in 1970s it spread among people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Initially, there were several outbreaks of the disease reported in Africa and other regions of the world. The simultaneous spread in 19 countries in 2022 prompted severe worries. The monkeypox virus is closely r...
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