Malaria is a major burden to human health in tropical and sub-tropical areas. In Nigeria, the entire population is at risk. Over the past decade, there had been persistent reports of mosquito nuisance and an increase in malaria prevalence at the University of Port Harcourt Teachi...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2018/v34i430100
The first step in making the exploitation of wildlife more sustainable is to determine the sustainability of current levels of harvest. This has two components: determining the offtake from an area; determining the effect this offtake has on the species concerned. Investigations...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/31600
Aims: The study was undertaken to investigate the attitudes of residents (involved and not involved) to the bush meat trade and conservation at a market town in rural lowland forest, Rivers State, Nigeria. Methodology: Against the background of meteoric rise in and alarming incre...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28255
The insect order Diptera has often been considered as the Medical and Veterinary order, because it contains families that affect humans and animals directly and indirectly. The focus on insect borne diseases in Bayelsa State had been on Malaria, although the contiguous States of...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2017/31081
Background: Vector control remains the most visible method for large scale control of trypanosomiasis; there is a lack of suitable prophylactic drugs and vaccines against trypanosomiases and chemotherapeutic agents remain too expensive and dangerous for most people in endemic are...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/14314
As a result of the limitations of physical and chemical methods for monitoring pollution, interest on the more reliable biological monitoring intensified over the past four decades. Soil microarthropods, specifically the free-living mites (Cryptostigmata, Mesostigmata, Prostigmat...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i430160