Abstract: Lactic acid bacteria are one of the most important groups of microorganisms useful in animal and human health as probiotics. Probiotics are the health promoting living microorganisms and produces antimicrobial compounds such as organic acids, H2O2 and bacteriocins. Now a day, the use of antibiotics as growth promoters is questionable. In this case, probiotics have a potential to solve this problem as one of the alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters. The aim of this study was ...
Abstract: Intestinal parasitic infections (IPI) are among the major health problems in many countries including Ethiopia. The objective of the present study was to determine the prevalence and intensity of intestinal parasitic infections and to identify the major protozoan and helminthes parasitic species among primary school children in the study area .The design of the study was a ccross-sectional school based parasitological survey involving 400 sample student populations drawn from Muket...
Abstract: HIV greatly increase the number of TB patients, which in turn increases TB transmission from family member and community members. The study was conducted in Kuyu Hospital from February-May 2017 with the objectives of determining the prevalence and trends of HIV, TB and their co-infections and associated risk factor among patients visiting Kuyu Hospital. A total of 384 patients of all age were enrolled in the study and out of this, the number of males and females were 196 and 188, r...
Abstract: The rumen is a special digestive vessel of ruminants, where digestion of cellulose and other plant polysaccharides occurs through microbial activities. On average, cellulose accounts for 50% of the dry weight of plant biomass. Cellulose and agricultural wastes were used as sole carbon sources for the production of cellulase by bacteria. This study focused on isolating and screening cellulase-producing rumen bacteria. The isolated rumen bacteria were identified using morphological a...
Abstract: In Ethiopia, it has been reported that there are no official quality control standards and cooling and other preservative facilities for most dairy products. Under such circumstances, fresh raw butter which has pleasant taste and odor will lose its quality because of microbial contamination. Hence, this study was conducted with the objective of investigating the butter preservation potential of selected spices/herbs commonly used in traditionally processed butter around Shashemenie...
Abstract: Aloe vera gel has been proven to be one of the best edible and biologically safe preservative coatings for different types of foods because of its film-forming properties, antimicrobial actions, biodegradability and biochemical properties. This study was planned to investigate the role of aloe gel coating in improving post harvest quality, shelf life, sugar and antioxidant (carotenoid) content of avocado fruit. The experiment was laid in completely randomized design (CRD) in two re...
Abstract: Intestinal parasitic infections are the major public health problems in many developing countries including Ethiopia. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection among Aboker Muti Primary SchoolChildren. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was carried out involving 384 schoolchildren who were selected using stratified random sampling technique during November 2018 to January 2019. A structured and pre-tested questionnaire were admin...
Abstract: The rising global population pressure generates challenges to fulfill food requirements for the coming generations in adequate amounts. This suggests that the human population cannot continue to be entirely dependent on crops, animal husbandry and fisheries for food. Instead, efforts should be made to enhance the production of other potential alternative sources of food. To this end the current study has been undertaken to evaluate the production of single cell protein (SCP) from A...
Abstract: Pectinases are the group of enzymes that degrade pectin. This study was conducted with the aim of isolation of efficient pectinase producing pectinoloytic fungi from the decaying vegetable and fruit soil containing decomposing mango peels using extracted mango peels pectin as a growth substrate under submerged fermentation, determining optimum pectinase production conditions and characterizing of ammonium sulphate precipitated pectinase activity with regards to some physicochemical...
Abstract: The identification of specific compounds in onion and garlic bulbs and agronomic practices would lead to a better understanding of the physiological responses to onion consumption. Phytochemicals are biologically active compounds in plants that have some beneficial importance in industrial and medicinal sciences. The present study was undertaken to investigate the role of roasting and cooking on phytochemical compositions of onion (Allium cepa L) and garlic (Allium sativum L.) bulb...
Abstract: The ABO and Rh blood groups are the most important blood groups despite the long list of several other blood groups discovered so far. The ABO and Rh blood group frequencies vary worldwide and are not found in equal frequencies even among ethnic groups. In this study, a cross-sectional survey was used to assess the phenotypic, allelic and genotypic frequency distribution of ABO and Rh blood groups and possible associations with intestinal parasitic infections in Babile district, Ea...
Abstract: Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by local people and associated indigenous knowledge was conducted in Gummer woreda, Gurage Zone, SNNPRS of Ethiopia. The purpose of this study was to investigate and document the traditional medicinal plants used by indigenous people of Gummer Woreda together with indigenous knowledge. Data collection tools were semi-structured interviews, field observations and group discussions. Descriptive statistics informant consensus factor, fidel...
Abstract: ABO and Rh blood groups vary worldwide and are not distributed uniformly even among related ethnic groups. The study was aimed at having information on the allelic frequency, genotypic frequency of ABO and Rh blood group phenotypes among the students of Bora Secondary School. From a total of 719 students 240 voluntary participant students were `selected for this study. Among them, 134 (55.83%) were males and 106(44.17%) were females. Blood samples were collected by pricking the mid...
Abstract: Biogas is one of the alternative energy sources that can be produced from animal wastes and crop residues through anaerobic digestion. This study evaluated biogas production from corn stalk with chicken manure in solo and mix ratios under anaerobic condition at 38ºC using batch digester. The Parameters studied included total solids (TS), volatile solids (VS), pH, organic carbon (%), total nitrogen and C: N ratio. After incubation for 30 days, gas production was measured daily for ...
Abstract: Production of biogas through anaerobic digestion of organic waste materials provides an alternative environmentally friendly renewable energy. Water hyacinth is one of the fastest growing aquatic weed known to man. The objective of this study was to determine biogas yield using water hyacinth as a sole substrate and co- digestion with poultry dropping. Anaerobic digestion (AD) was done using the two substrates in five mix ratio was evaluated under mesophilic conditions (380C) using...