Abstract Introduction: One of the most serious issues in medicine is increasing resistance of Gram negative bacilli to antimicrobial agents especially broad spectrum antibiotics such as carbapenems and colistins. This fact is associated with higher mortality and morbidity rates, prolonged hospital stays and increased treatment related costs.Medicinal plants appeared to be the best alternative source for new antimicrobial drugs.. Nigella sativa is an herbaceous plant whose seeds have beenused ...
Aimed to this study was to study the antibacterial activity of the different concentrations of methanolic and aqueous extract of the medicinal plants A.nilotica sub spp nilotica and sub spp adansonii pods using agar dilution method. Hundred wound swabs were collected from patients with infected wounds who attended to Soba Teaching Hospital and Alban Gadeed Teaching Hospital during period from March to October 2015. From this study it was found that wound infection had high frequency in patien...
ABSTRACT Global warming has revitalized interest in the relationship between body size and temperature, proposed by Bergmann’s rule 150 years ago, one of the oldest manifestations of a ‘biogeography of traits’. We review biogeographic evidence, results from clonal cultures and recent micro- and mesocosm experiments with naturally mixed phytoplankton communities regarding the response of phytoplankton body size to temperature, either as a single factor or in combination with other facto...
ABSTRACT A total of eight soil samples were collected from different sites within FUOYE environment and were analyzed to determine the presence of antibiotic producing bacteria, fungi and actinomycete Using nutrient agar, sabauraud dextrose agar and glycerol yeast extract agar as culture media. Seven bacteria: Escherichia coli, Bacillus spp, Pseudomonas spp, Azomonas spp, Gluconobacter spp, Micrococcus spp, and Staphylococcus aureus; five fungi: Rhizopus spp, Mucor spp, Rhodotorula spp, ...
ABSTRACT Plant samples collected within and around Federal University Oye-Ekiti was air dried, pulverized and subjected to hot (soxhlet) extraction and cold extraction using three (3) extractive solvent (ethyl acetate, methanol, n-hexane).' The extracts were seperated from the solvent using rotary evaporator while the crude extracts were subjected to thin layer chromatography (TLC) using different solvent ratio mixtures on a silica gel coated TLC plates. The antibacterial activity of act...
ABSTRACT Medicinal plants have been used for centuries as remedies for human diseases because they contain components of therapeutic value. Phyllanthus amarus has shown to work as an antifungal, antibacterial and antiviral agent. Bioautography is a technique used to isolate compounds by employing a suitable chromatographic process followed by a biological detection system. Referenced pure culture antibiotics resistant Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus strain (Co NS I Ob: Ojo) and Staphyl...
ABSTRACT Human papilloma virus (HPV) infections are the most common sexually transmitted infections(STDs) in the world. This study was to document the prevalence. of Human papilloma virus infection in Federal university Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. Urine samples were collected from ninety four participants and were screened for HPV (lgM) antibody using the HPV ELISA. Out of 94 samples analysed, 2 (2.1 %) was positive for Human papilloma virus IgM, and higher prevalence were recorded i...
ABSTRACT This research study is designed to determine the microbial count of Chicken Droppings and Ground Palm kernel shell in which the chicken droppings is used as inoculum on Ground Palm Kernel Shell at Ratio 2: l in which the inoculum size is half of the Ground Palm Kernel Shell. Pollution of the environment due to oil production can be reduced through this study because is aimed at examining the microorganism responsible for the biodegradation that can be achieved in Palm kernel she...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed at evaluating the proP,hylactic activity of Phy/lanthus amarus and Diodia scandens in synergism on the Swiss albino rats. The two plants were obtained from Federal University Oye-Ekiti and its environs, thoroughly washed with distilled water and air dried at room temperature for two weeks. The air dried plant materials were pulverized into powdery form using house-hold electric blender. Ethyl-acetate extracts of the two plants combined was administered orally in ...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of malaria parasite among patients with sickle cell trait in Ekiti state. A total of 20 samples were collected from different hospitals and clinics. The samples were collected randomly and sodium metabilsulphite was employed to confirm the sickling trait in the samples and thereafter the malaria parasite kit was used to test for the prevalence of malaria in the samples. Eight (8) persons who tested positive for sickle cell trait...
ABSTRACT The antibiotic susceptibility pattern of aerobic mesophilic bacteria isolated from kunu samples sold in Ile-lfe, Osun State, Nigeria was studied following standard microbiological methods. Seven ready-to-drink kunu samples were purchased from different hawkers at Ile Ife. The samples were transported immediately in ice bucket to the laboratory for analysis. The aerobic mesophilic bacteria associated with kunu samples were isolated, labeled and identified by phenotypic and biochemica...
Abstract Medicinal plants have been widely used in folk medicine. They are considered today as an interesting source of new drug due to their bioactive components. The genus, Cymbopogon schenanthus (Poaceae). is an aromatic plant seems important source of several bioactive compound use in traditional medicine . This was descriptive and cross sectional study conducted during the period from June to October 2018, to determine the antimicrobial activity of Cymbopogon schoenanthus methanolic ext...
ABSTRACT The indiscriminate use of antibacterial agents has led to one of the largest recent global health problems which is the emergence of bacterial resistance. The present study was aimed to investigate the antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of ethanolic extracts of the two medicinal plants; Rosmarinus officinalis L. and Thymus vulgaris L.on Escherichia coli (E.coli). Antibiotic susceptibility test was applied against E.coli urinary isolates using Chloramphenicol, Gentamycin, Amoxici...
ABSTRACT The greatest human nutritional problem in Nigeria is that of inadequate animal protein in the diet of a large proportion of the population. The development and sustenance of the poultry industry in Nigeria appears to be the fastest means of meeting human need for dietary animal protein supply. However, diseases constitute a major problem to the development of the poultry industry and Newcastle disease (ND) is the most important of these diseases. Newcastle disease is caused by ...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to establish the spatial and temporal distribution of foot-andmouth disease (FMD) virus (FMDV) serotypes and evaluate the awareness of people on FMD in the eastern zone of Tanzania. Both observational prospective studies involving serological analysis, FMDV antigen detection and questionnaire survey, and retrospective study on FMDV antigen detection were used in this research. Seroprevalence of antibodies to the nonstructural protein 3ABC of FMDV and seroty...