Qualitative assessment of bacterial activities within shipwrecks along Iwafe estuary of New Calabar River was studied. The study was aimed at identifying the various bacterial communities present in a shipwreck ecosystem in an estuary located in the Niger Delta. Water, sediment...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i530245
Bed linen is clearly recognized as a potential reservoir for microorganisms and could be a vector of disease transmission. The present study was aimed at isolating and characterizing bacteria and fungi from different kinds of bed linen of student in Ekiti State University hostels...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i530244
Bacteriological and nutritional quality of market and home smoke dried shrimp was carried out. Fresh and dried shrimps were bought from market. One set of the fresh shrimp was not rinsed before they were home smoke dried and used for analysis, another set was rinsed with clean wa...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i530243
Background: Since their discovery in 1928, antibiotics have revolutionized modern human medicine. A direct consequence of their widespread use and abuse is the concomitant development of sophisticated resistance mechanisms by microbes to most of these antibiotic agents. With a sh...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i530241
Onions (Allium cepa), a vegetable plant is consumed globally for its culinary and medicinal importance. Despite the various health benefits ascribed to onions, several rumours have been spread, especially on the online media as regards its ability to act as a sponge absorbing mic...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i530239
This study was conducted to determine the antibacterial effect of crude extracts of Annona muricata, comparing the leaf and stem bark extracts using the same extraction solvents. The bacteria isolates were obtained from the hospital. The isolates obtained are Staphylococcus aureu...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i530240
Background: Antibiotic resistance is increasingly an issue in both human health and veterinary medicine. It is important to regularly assess the resistance of strains which have high potential to transmit this resistance. Numerous researches have shown so far that coli forms are...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i430242
G. O. Daramola, H. A. Edogun, O. Alex-Abioudun, Q. M. Umukoro, A. O. Ojerinde, O. D. Ajayi, A. Fatoki, A. H. Egbebi & O. O. Ogunfolakan·Journal of Advances in Microbiology·2020
It was a major breakthrough for human medicine when Landsteiner discovered the ABO blood group system. But with the discovery of ABO and Rhesus systems, this major hindrance to safe blood transfusion- and by extension surgery- was effectively put behind humanity. Centuries after...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i430238
Antimicrobial activities of the leaves and stem bark in aqueouse and ethanol extracts of Alchornea cordifolia were evaluated using tube dilution assay to determine the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) and Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC) and Minimum Fungicidal Conce...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i430237
Andrée Emmanuelle Sika, Yolande Aké-Assi, Therese Anoman, Ollo Kambire, Rose Koffi-Nevry & Koffi Marcellin Djè·Journal of Advances in Microbiology·2020
Aims: The aim of this work was to study the effect of lactic acid on the growth of pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli (ETEC) isolated from tuna loins. Study Design: Bacteriological study. Place and Duration of Study: Laboratory of Microbiology of the Central Laboratory of Foo...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i430235