Background: Human Herpes Virus 2 (HSV-2) infection has been shown to be significantly associated with several obstetric complications, especially if the infection occurred during the pregnancy. Advocacy for policy formulation and the design of interventions requires local data on...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/7020
Aims: The design of the ultrasonic power supply based on HPWM was researched and developed to reduce the switching loss of high frequency switch and its harmonic distortion in this paper, which the performance of whole system is highly improved. Study Design: An improved control...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/6717
Aims: To investigate the levels, variability and degree of heavy metal pollution in in-situ municipal solid waste dumpsite soil (WDS) compared to adjoining area (CS) at 100 – 120m from dumpsite as a contribution to global knowledge of pattern of pollution and data base at dumpsit...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4500
Aims: The influence of brine pretreatment and blanching on drying kinetics, area shrinkage and rehydration of oven-dried chayote slices was investigated. Study Design: Completely Randomized Block Design. Place and Duration of Study: Food Processing and Engineering Division of the...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4567
Yunusa Isa, Minjibir Aminu Ibrahim, Ahmad Isa Muhammad, Madobi Amina Lawan, Huzaifa Umar, Abdulkadir Rabiu Salisu, Kabir Nafisa & Ezeanyika Lawrence Uchenna Sunday·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2014
Background and Objective: Healthy body weight is an important indicator towards prevention of diseases. In the north western part of Nigeria, there is dearth of data on the prevalence of HBV infection among female adolescents. This study was therefore, carried out to determine th...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/6288
Introduction: Edible insects, which are generally abundant, nutrient-dense, marketable, and economically valuable constitute important part of the diet of large population of Nigerians. Roasted Winged termite (Macrotermes bellicosus) is a popular insect relished by people living...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4420
Aims: This study aims at characterization of purified active ingredient isolated from commonly available botanical plant, Ocimum sanctum L. and to assess its potential for deployment in integrated disease management strategy of a staple food crop rice (Oryzae sativa L.) and rice...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/6609
Adsorption of Fe3+/Fe2+ from a polluted shallow well water onto a palm kernel shell activated carbon (PKSAC) has been studied. Batch experiment was adopted to study the Removal efficiency of Fe3+/Fe2+ on varying contact time, temperature, adsorbent loading and concentrations. Eq...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/7149
Aims:To show the relationships among subject-reported measures of vision, the view through an ophthalmoscope, the view through a slit lamp, the view through a clinician’s eye, optical coherence tomography (OCT) images, fundus photos, visual field diagrams and Optomap images. Meth...
Dendriform keratitis is a recurrent sequelae of herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO). A 76-year-old immunocompetent Indian male with HZO developed left eye keratouveitis, uveitic glaucoma and superior orbital fissure syndrome. After treatment with intravenous acyclovir for two weeks,...
Aims: To investigate, for 13 aldose reductase inhibitors that had been in development for diabetic cataract, whether patent documents could provide earlier dissemination of knowledge to the ophthalmology community than peer review papers. Methodology: Searches for intellectual pr...
The incidence of human infections caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum is recently on the increase and this is attributed largely to alteration in antibiotic usage pattern, malnutrition and poor oral hygiene. These infections are usually acquired exogenously from animals such as d...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6634
Background: C. krusei is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that known of its intrinsic fluconazole resistance and its frequency is increasing especially among hematology patients. The increase in the frequency of high mortality fungal infections have accelerated the efforts of new...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6950
Aim: To study the impact of sweet potatoes on α-glucosidase, β-glucosidase, acid phosphatase, and phytase activity of Lactobacillus. Study Design: Enzymatic activity of seven strains of Lactobacillus grown in a sweet potato medium (SPM) was determined and compared to the standard...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/5921
This work was carried out to study the effect of iron on the growth density of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as well as drug susceptibility testing. Fifty two smear-positive acid fast bacilli out of 100 sputum specimens were obtained from patients who were referred to National Healt...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/7049