ABSTRACT The experiment was designed to determine the effect of two different solvent (N-hexane and petroleum ether) on chemical composition of lemongrass oil. The oil was extracted from lemongrass using Nhexane and petroleum ether using soxhlet extraction method. The chemical composition of essential oil obtained were analyse using GC-MS machine. The result shows 4.4% of oil were obtained from lemongrass using N-hexane and 4.9% were obtained using petroleum ether. The composition analysed b...
ABSTRACT The antinutritional composition of leafs and stem bark s. longepedunculata were investigated using standard analytical methods. The leafs and stem bark of S. longepedunculata was air dried and the sample was pulverized for the determination of anti-nutritive contents. The antinutritional continents viz phytate, oxalate, nitrate and cyanide were determined in this investigation. Nitrate content was significantly (p
ABSTRACT Ensuring food safety to protect public health remains a significant challenge in both developing and developed countries and food borne illness prevention system will depend on the extent of food safety control in place through food production, processing and distribution, keeping food at safe temperature and using safe water and raw materials. These stages of production are some of the important points determining food safety. The high level of bacterial contamination leading to in...
ABSTRACT The hue and cry of food insecurity in Nigeria prompted the curiosity of this study. This study investigates the evaluation of some nutritional, physicochemical and phytochemical parameters on Dioscorea rotundata (white yam) flesh and peels exposed to four different storage patterns in Nigeria. Four storage patterns and 20 tubers of yam were used for this study. The yams were grouped into the four storage patterns: Open Sided, Yam Barn, Heap on Floor and Platform Storage, and the ana...
ABSTRACT Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is caused by infection with threadlike worms called Wuchereria bancrofti. There had been different methods of diagnosing Filariasis. The two major diagnosing method is the Filariasis Test strip and the Microscopy test. This project is to compare the efficiency between the Microscopy test and Filariasis Test Strip (FTS) Night blood sampling method collected between the hours of 10pm – 2am and Filariasis test strip is done same hours using 2 drop of blood a...
ABSTRACT Coastal ecosystems sustain local and national fisheries livelihoods through a range of ecosystem services (ES) they provide. Five of these coastal ecosystems, located in two communities within the Greater Cape Three Points (GCTP) area—Princess Town (PT) and Cape Three Points (C3P)—were assessed to develop a scheme for establishing Marine Protected Area (MPA). To conduct an integrated assessment, the study employed the Community Participatory Mapping and Assessment of ecosystems a...
ABSTRACT Available information on medicinal plants indicates habitat loss and has heightened the need for more proactive conservation strategies. Conservation efforts in this direction resulted in an ecopharmacological survey in the West African sub-region by three countries (Nigeria, Ghana and Republic of Benin) to assess frequently used medicinal plants. The result of the socio-economic study based on utilization pattern regionally was used to produce a list of ten topmost frequently used a...
ABSTRACT Schistosoma haematobium infects school children in areas where the disease is endemic. This study was carried out to determine the reliability of IgG Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) as an immunodiagnostic tool, using whole antigen derived from Schistosoma eggs. Children of school going age living in Ipogun village, in south western Nigeria; a schistosomiasis endemic community; were used in this study. The sensitivity of the IgG ELISA in detecting positive cases was 68.0% an...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out to determine the effect of drying methods on the nutrient contents of Moringa oleifera at the Agric. Chemical Laboratory (Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto) and The Energy Research Field of Sokoto Energy Center, Sokoto. Fresh leaves were collected and cleaned then dried using different drying methods viz. shade drying, solar drying, oven drying and sun drying. The treatments were analyzed for proximate and mineral contents using standard methods. Sta...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to determine the abundance of mosquito species within Sokoto metropolis. Three (3) locations, which are Danbuwa, Gobirawa and GidanIgwai, in three (3) Local Government Areas, namely; DangeShuni, Sokoto South and Sokoto North Local Government Areas respectively, were sampled out of the five (5) Local Government Areas that make up Sokoto Metropolis were sampled. A total of 341 Mosquitoes species belonging to two genera were collected. The genera identified ...
ABSTRACT Malaria is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in children under 5 years and pregnant women. The use of Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), which is a combination of a fast-acting artemisinin derivative and a relatively slow-acting partner drug, is used for malaria treatment in disease-endemic areas. The ACT partner drugs in Ghana are lumefantrine (LUM), amodiaquine (AQ), and piperaquine (PQ). Plasmodium falciparum isolates wi...
ABSTRACT Background & objectives: The challenge of malaria and efforts targeted at developing malaria vaccines triggered this study on the reactivity of IgG and its subclasses in the test serum specific to CSP. This work was directed at assessing the influence of age and gender on host humoral antibody against Plasmodium falciparum recombinant circumsporozoite antigen in Nigerian children. Methods: In all, 67 serum samples (>10,000 parasites/μl of blood) collected from malaria-infected chi...
Report on Germination technology as a model to enable the growing of Acacia erioloba (camel thorn tree) in arid conditions in the Namib desert of Namibia.
ABSTRACT Cymbopogon citratus, commonly known as lemongrass due to its lemon fragrance when crushed. Due to the presence of many phytochemicals in lemongrass, their use in the treatment of illnesses has increased. The antimicrobial activity of Cymbopogoncitratus (Lemongrass) was evaluated on Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi, Streptococcus pyogenes and Candida albicans. The extract was obtained using two solvents; ethanol and methanol. The antimicrobial activity of the extracts was test...