Lacinan Ouattara, M’boh Epi Reine Elisabeth N’gou, Issa Bagré, Andrée Emmanuelle Sika & Karamoko Ouattara·Journal of Advances in Microbiology·2020
Trema guineensis is a woody plant distributed in tropical forest of which leaf and bark extracts are traditionally used for the treatment of various diseases including fever, bronchitis, and gastrointestinal disorders. Previous studies have highlighted their antibacterial activit...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i830271
The Physico-chemistry and heavy metal analyses of Elechi creek were assessed to determine the level of contamination and concentration of metals in the water body. Standard analytical procedures were used during the study. The study showed that pH recorded 7.00-7.35 in surface wa...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i830272
Aims: This study was set to optimize conditions for real time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for detection of dengue virus by using rapid and simple nucleic acid extraction method. Methodology: One step and two step real time RT-PCR were evaluated in dif...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i830269
In this study, the biosafety of the consumption of coconut water and oil was investigated. This was carried out by assessing their effects on the types and population of bacterial flora in the ileum of Apparently Healthy Wistar (AHW) rats. Both the in vitro and in vivo assays wer...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i730268
The aim of this study was to identify and evaluate the physiological studies of lactic acid bacteria from native raw cow milk. Cow milk samples were collected purposively from four different locations in Ibadan. The proximate analysis, pH and acidity of the milk samples were exam...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i730267
Background: Opportunistic fungal infection in HIV positive individualshas a high risk of morbidity and mortality as it could be a pointer to systemic infection. Moringa oleifera is one of the 14 species of the family Moringaceae with traditional effectiveness in anti–helminthic,...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i730265
Wine, an alcoholic beverage is usually produced from juice of variety of fruits by the fermentative action of microorganisms particularly by yeasts. Several substrates such as pineapple, banana, watermelon, pawpaw and other fruits have been used to produce wine using Saccharomyce...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i730264
The nutritional and mycoflora changes in dried African yam beans (Sphenostylis stenocarpa) were investigated during a storage period of twenty weeks. The result of the proximate analysis (g/100 g) showed that the following moisture content decreased from 11.15-9.80, fat 1.25-0.49...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i730263
National efforts to control canine rabies have encountered some challenges, hence the disease is becoming endemic in Eswatini. The purpose of this study was to establish the extent to which resources and other relevant constraints may have an impact on implementing the national r...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i730260
The objective of the study was to evaluate in vitro inhibitory effect of methanolic and methanolic-aqueous mixture extracts of Plectranthus neochilus Schltr (P. neochilus) and Bauhinia rufescens Lam (B. rufescens) on the growth of Escherichia coli 25922 and Proteus mirabilis. A p...
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