Staphylococcus aureus is a fast evolving and a well-adapted opportunistic pathogen that causes a variety of infections such as boils, abscesses, pneumonia, toxic shock syndrome, endocarditis, bacteraemia and food poisoning in humans. The colonisation of various body sites by S. a...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/31761
Newcastle disease constitutes a major constraint to the rural poultry production system in Nigeria. This study was carried out to investigate the seroprevalence of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) in local chickens from Sokoto live bird market, Sokoto, Nigeria, through antibody dete...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/31362
Background: Dermatophytes are fungi, which cause most of superficial fungal infections. Several antifungal agents are commercially available to treat these dermatophytes. Methods: We adopted a newly developed agar based disk diffusion assay to test susceptibility of 72 clinically...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/31827
Aims: To examine the efficiency and compare the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Alternaria sp to degrade hydrocarbons found in crude oil-polluted soil. Study Design: The study made use of a purposive sampling method. Place and Duration: Department of Microbiology, Universit...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/31918
Aims: To determine the probiotic potential of Streptococcus thermophilus and effects of lactalbumin hydrolysate (whey protein) and inulin (prebiotics) supplementation in the production medium on the growth and bioactivity profile of S. thermophilus under different pH and temperat...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/30931
The antimicrobial activity of methanol, hot water and cold water extracts of the leaf of Emilia pratermissawas evaluated against organisms isolated from patients with otitis media using agar well diffusion method. The isolated bacteria were subjected to antibiotic susceptibility...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/31241
This efficacy of sterilization and cleaning methods used in the barbing salons and the possibility of those equipments acting as vehicles of transmission of fungal pathogens from one customer to another was assessed in this study. Thirty barbing saloons were randomly selected fro...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/31091
Campylobacter are Gram negative bacteria, ubiquitous, found in the gastrointestinal tract of warm blooded animals, including poultry and also in their nature. The most dominant species is Campylobacter jejuni, followed by Campylobacter coli. For a long time, these bacteria have b...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/31496
Background: The early detection of extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) producers in clinical microbiology is now of great importance to optimize appropriate therapeutic schemes and to improve the patient outcome. The ESBL NDP (Nordmann/Dortet/Poirel) test has been recently devel...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/31689
Background: Carbapenem resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) constitute major public health threat. They account for significant morbidity and mortality and also present patients with difficult to treat infection. This study examines the integron carriage rate and gene content among...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/29087