Microbial Assessment of Swimming Pools from Selected Hotels in Osogbo Metropolis, Osun State, Nigeria The presence of microorganisms in swimming pool water is of concern today and health threat because they have been shown to cause infections especially gastroenterititis infectio...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/38397
Antimicrobial Effects of Garlic Extracts against Multidrug Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Clinical Specimens Aim: To assess the antibacterial potentials of Allium sativum and their interaction with antibiotics against clinical isolates of multidrug resistant Staphy...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/38115
The Case Report of the Pulmonary Larval Paragonimiasis with Simulating Cancer of the Lung Larval Paragonimiasis is a parasitic disease caused by the larvae of the pulmonary fluke. In contrast to the classical Paragonimiasis, larval occurs with a large number of clinical manifesta...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/38421
Aim: To optimize the combination of selected culture medium parameters so as to achieve maximum biosurfactant production from Pseudomonas fluorescens. Study Design: (1) Culturing P. fluorescens for biosurfactant production using a glycerol-mineral salt media with variations in r...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/38199
An Overview of Cultural, Molecular and Metagenomic Techniques in Description of Microbial Diversity Traditional microbiology based on the culture of microorganisms has been the mainstay of microbiology for over a century and has contributed immensely to what we now know about the...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/37951
Aim: This study was carried out to determine the presence of ESBLs genes (TEM, CTX-M, SHV, AAC and OXA types of Beta-lactamases) in clinical isolates of Klebsiella species producing extended spectrum beta-lactamase. Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase (ESBL)-producing Klebsiella hav...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/37925
The study was carried out to determine the effect of pH and pH changes accompanying Biocellulose (BC) production by Gluconacetobacter xylinus (GX) in a Moringa oleifera tea-sugar medium. The authors adopted experimental and comparative design for the study. Moringa oleifera leave...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/38440
Antimicrobial Activity of Garlic Extract on Organisms Isolated from Tomato Rot Aqueous garlic extract is made up of antioxidant ingredient and has been responsible for boosting the immune system of the body; it is also used as a broad spectrum antibiotic, killing bacteria, fungus...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/37590
The textile industry is a substantial consumer of water and it produces enormous volumes of contaminated water: the most important contaminants are dyes and chemicals. Synthetic dyes have an adverse effect on aquatic ecosystem and their toxic substances have to be removed from th...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/37322
Background: Sida cuneifolia is utilized traditionally to treat many ailments yet as far as we know its medicinal properties have not been scientifically tested locally in Kenya. The aim of the present study was therefore to investigate the antimicrobial properties of S. cuneifoli...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/37894