Public health is at risk due to the fact that enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) is becoming resistant to most antibiotics that demonstrates widespread misuse of antibiotics. The study was aimed at molecularly identify and perform plasmid curing with extracts of Morinda citrifolia...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2022/v14i2268
Water quality determination has become essential in characterising the nature of water used by humans for various purposes. This study was therefore carried out to assess the nitrate to phosphate ratio and other physical and chemical parameters influencing the quality of water us...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v15i130217
Aim: The antibacterial activity of Bay leaf (Laurus nobilis L.) and Zobo leaf (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) extracts on enteropathogenic bacteria was investigated. Study Design: The study utilized well in agar diffusion to investigate the antimicrobial properties of the extracts. Plac...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2019/v16i230118
Aims: To investigate the types of bacteria found in the different parts of Chicken meat using biochemical and molecular techniques. Study Design: Poultry birds were bought and processed in the respective markets by the butchers. Four parts of the poultry meat were minced and plac...
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Research Article10.9734/AFSJ/2019/45411
Aims: This study aimed to determine the biodegradative potential of crude oil by Chryseobacterium sp. and Lysinibacillus fusiformis isolated from Crude Oil site in Gokana LGA, of Rivers State. Study Design: Research was designed to evaluate the speed of degradation of crude oil b...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2018/42680
Aim: To evaluate environmental bacteria isolates from a government health institution and their antimicrobial profile. Place and Duration of Study: The sampled location was the mini Mile 3 Model Primary Health Centre, Port Harcourt, Nigeria for three months (January-March). Metho...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2018/42833
Candidiasis is a common opportunistic fungal infection caused by yeast, which affects mainly women. The prevalence of candidiasis among pregnant and non-pregnant women in two Local Government Areas of Rivers State, Nigeria was investigated. A total of ninety-five women from ages...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2022/v14i2269
The contamination of vended food with microorganisms especially pathogenic microbes is a public health hazard that could result to gastroenteritis. The aim of this study was to identify by molecular techniques bacteria associated with vended suya meat in part of Port Harcourt. Fo...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2022/v12i230266
Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of vancomycin resistance among Enterococcal species isolated from clinical specimens of patients attending two hospitals in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Study Design: The study employs statistical analysis of the data and in...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2021/v21i730369
Biofertilizers are ecofriendly fertilizers that are produced via degradation of wastes by microorganisms. The efficiency of Lynsibacillus macroides and Alcaligens faecalis in the production of fertilizer from organic wastes was evaluated. The bacterial isolates were isolated from...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2021/v10i130220
Fish pond wastewater management is one of the problems having the greatest impact on the environment. This untreated fish pond waste water contains organic materials, pathogenic microorganisms, nutrients and toxic compounds, which when discharged into the environment and it runs...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2021/v21i530346
Aims: The quality of indoor air in some government health institutions in Port Harcourt was evaluated with a view to determining the level of microbial contamination and to carry out molecular identification of the microorganism in the indoor air. Study Design: Experimental analy...
The long history of use of coliforms as indicators of microbiological quality of water and food materials constitutes a veritable rationale for the ascertainment of the microbiological status of locally brewed, liquid herbal remedies, commercially hawked and widely consumed withi...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2021/v21i930386
An essential mandate of food and drug regulatory agencies is to ensure that products offered for public consumption are free from such level of microbial contamination as to endanger the health of consumers. A number of herbal remedies offered to the public were found not to be r...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2021/v10i330232
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
Tegillarca granosa (clam) was preserved by different drying methods. The molluscan shellfish sample was smoked dried and oven dried to predict the most effective method of drying based on the microbiological quality, proximate composition and sensory evaluation of the shellfish s...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i1030288