Production and Optimization of Cellulase from Penicillium sp. Using Corn-cob and Pawpaw Fibre as Substrates Aim: This study reports the production and optimization of cellulase from Penicillium sp. using corn-cob (CC) and pawpaw fibre (PF) as substrates. Methods: Nine fungal isol...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2018/39227
In vivo Prophylactic Evaluation of the Antiplasmodial Property of Ethanol and Hot Water Extracts of Milky Mushroom (Calocybe indica) Aims: Calocybe indica is commonly known as the milky mushroom and is one of the protein-rich mushrooms that have high medicinal property. Malaria i...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2018/39198
Bacteriological Quality of Water in Meet Khamis Drinking Water Plant, Egypt: Detection of Bacterial Pathogens and Contamination Sources This study aims to evaluating the bacteriological quality of water in four areas. Locations under investigation were: (1) The River Nile water a...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2018/38782
Minimum Inhibitory Concentration of Chlorhexidine and Cetylpyridinium Chloride against a Mixture of Two Species of Oral Streptococci Background and Objectives: Although bacteria in plaques are present as a mixed population comprising various species, mechanisms underlying differe...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2018/38780
Background: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the major bacteria pathogens implicated in hospital and community-associated infections. Aim: This study aimed to determine the prevalence and multidrug-resistant (MDR) pattern of Methicillin-resistant S. au...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2018/39020
Karine M. K. Gba, Nathalie K. Guessennd, Nicole P. Nieko Dangui Makaya, Eric J. Tahou, Fernique Konan & Simon-Pierre A. N’guetta·Journal of Advances in Microbiology·2018
Metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL) producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa has emerged as a threat to hospital infection control, due to its ability of multi-drug resistance. This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of MBL producing P. aeruginosa in an Abidjan Hospital, Côte d'I...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2018/38792
This study aims to determine the antimicrobial activity of different brand of commercially available toothpaste in Malaysian outlet, namely Colgate-Total, Mu’min, Tesco and Safi against selected oral microbiome. All the different toothpastes brand were tested for their antimicrob...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2018/38682
Field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect foliar spray of aqueous extracts of Datura stramonium, Ricinus communis and Jatropha gossypifolia at three concentrations (65 50 and 30%) on cowpea anthracnose disease caused by Colletotrichum lindemuthianum in sole cowpea and...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/38156
Botrytis cinerea is an important phytopathogenic fungus that causes diseases in wide range of hosts, including various fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants. In this study, infected bottle gourd was collected from the commercial farm of Wuhan, China to characterize the pathoge...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/37110
Aims: To determine the effects of ampicillin on the relative abundance of the gut microbiota using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) metagenomics platform and to predict metabolic functions with bioinformatics suite. Methods: The subject who has taken no antibiotics for the past s...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/38867