AbstractBACKGROUND Nigeria is the second most endemic country in the world for lymphatic filariasis, withcontrol efforts often hampered by poor community awareness and involvement in intervention strategies.OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, perception, and psychosocial aspects of some residents in Nigerian rural communities about lymphatic filariasis in order to develop disease control and intervention strategies with active community involvement.METHODS A standar...
Dear Editor,Infection due to Plasmodium falciparum is a serious public health threat in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria endemic foci are often times affected by other infectious agents which may contribute to the clinical episodes of the disease. 1Hepatitis B virus is one of such infectious agents that coexistwith P. falciparum in most endemic areas. Although the accurate infection status due to hepatitis B virus infection is not yet known, an estimated 350 million persons worldwide are chronic c...
Abstract: Freshwater snails of the genus Bulinus O. F. Müller, 1781 are intermediate hosts for schistosomes, trematode parasites which cause schistosomiasis. The genus includes closely related species complexes with restricted gene flow between populations of each taxon. Despite their importance as intermediate hosts, unambiguous identification of these snails remains challenging. We applied molecular approach to their identification to achieve a better understanding of the epidemiology of s...
Cockroaches and houseflies pose significant public health threat owning to their ability to mechanically transmit human intestinal parasites and other disease-causing microorganisms. This study aims at assessing the vectoral capacity of cockroaches and houseflies in the transmission of human intestinal parasites. Intestinal parasite external surface contamination of 130 cockroaches and 150 houseflies caught within dwelling places in Ilishan-Remo town, Ogun StateNigeria was determined. Coc...
The study evaluated the molluscicidal effects of ethanolic leaf extracts of two Nigerian indigenousmedicinal plants; Terminalia catappa and Carica papaya. Different concentrations 2500, 630, 160, 40 and10 ppm were prepared from the stock solution of the extracts. Adult Biomphalaria pfeifferi and Bulinusglobosus were exposed to these different graded concentrations. Mortalities were observed at intervalsof time. There were strong positive correlations between mortalities observed in snails and...
AbstractBackground: Rapid and accurate diagnosis is necessary for the management of schistosomiasis in endemic areas.Objective: To assess the burden of urogenital schistosomiasis and the diagnostic efficiency of morbidity indicators of the disease in an endemic rural community of Nigeria.Methods: A cross-sectional school-based study was conducted. Urine samples of 487 pupils were screened microscopically for S. haematobium and tested for haematuria and proteinuria using chemical r...
ABSTRACT In recent years, electronic commerce of agricultural products has developed rapidly. In the development process of agriculture, with the help of some agricultural research institutes putting up websites for their various institutes, where farmers can read up how to improve productivity or some improved varieties (seedlings, cassava stems etc) to use in their farms but a platform has not been laid for the implementation of the sale of agricultural produce. The author discussed some f...
Mushroom is a macro fungus with a distinctive fruiting body which can be either epigeous or hypogeous and large enough to be seen with the naked eye and can be picked with hand (Chang and Milles.19920). Mushrooms derive all of their energy and growth materials from their growth medium, through biochemical decomposition processes (Chang, Shu-Ting, et al. 2004).
This work was written to help people and the society in general understand the contributions little, unnoticeable things like the pollen grains make in the world and also for them to see the relevance of paleo-botany
Linear programming is a mathematical tool that is used to maximize or minimize a function when constraints are linear. In this project, we considered some examples and applications of linear programming problems. TABLE OF CONTENTS Title page Certification Dedication Acknowledgements Abstract Table of Contents List of Tables�...
Abstract Soft drinks are consumed daily in Nigeria due to their characteristic taste, palatability, affordability and thirst quenching potential. This study quantifies the amount of electrolytes of Biochemical significance in selected soft drinks sold in Port Harcourt and their pH values. The samples included six frequently consumed soft drinks; (Coke, Sprite, Fayrouz, Mountain-Dew, Fanta and Pepsi). The results showed that the samples contain relatively high amount of Sodium(Na+) ranging fro...
ABSTRACT The high cost of treated water makes most people in the rural communities to resort to water sources which are normally of low quality and which expose them to waterborne diseases. The main objective of this work is to evaluate the effectiveness of Cucurbita pepo seed powders for the removal of turbidity in river water using Alum as a standard. Water samples were co...
This research work, Design and Implementation of an Attendance System using fingerprint scanner, focuses on computerizing and managing the attendance of students during lecture or event periods. This is very imperative as the cons of the traditional pen to paper attendance system far outweigh the pros as management of student attendance has become a hassle due to increasing number of students during various lecture periods. This study would discuss in detail, how the inconveniences posed by t...
Computer and data have become an integral part of every enterprise and business today. Accurate data which is transformed to information is required for any industry to perform at optimal level as such is used in decisive management and decision making processes. This therefore makes such organisations critically dependent on the use of a database system to help in accessing such data and information. However, many hospitals are found to be somewhat “stuck” on the present manual paper bas...
ABSTRACT This research work is in respect to the development of an Information Retrieval System for the Federal Road Safety Corps in Benue State. An Information Retrieval System is a system that is capable of storage, retrieval and maintenance of information, the general objective of this System is to minimize the overhead of a user locating needed information, overhead can be expressed as the time a user spends in all of the steps leading to reading an item containing the needed informati...