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2022 | International Journal of Innovative and Applied Research | Pp. 01-11
According to UNAIDS, there were approximately 37.9 million people across the globe with HIV/AIDS in 2018. Of these, 36.2million were adult and 1.7 million were children (<15years old). New HIV infection – An estimated 1.7 million individuals worldwide were ne...
2022 | International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research | Pp. 25-36
MRSA is defined by the presence of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec(SCCmec); which is a large mobile genetic element that carries the mecA genewhich codes for an alternative form of penicillin binding protein (PBP2a).Staphylococcus aureus developed resi...
2022 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES | Pp. 21-26
Antenatal care has been defined as the attention, education, supervision and treatment given to the pregnant womanfrom time conception is confirmed until the beginning of labour in order to ensure safe pregnancy, labour andpuerperal. This is essential in orde...
2022 | Asian Journal of Medicine and Health | Pp. 136-146,
Vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) is a non-physiological epithelial fistulous tract between the bladder and the vagina, resulting in continuous urinary incontinence. VVF occurs most commonly after obstetrical and gynecological injury. This study is a descriptive cr...
2022 | International Journal of Innovative and Applied Research | Pp. 25-30
The Covid-19 outbreak renders managing diabetes mellitus problematic. Infection with Covid-19 predisposes infected individuals to hyperglycemia, leading to hyper glycosylation of ACE2 and increased viral proliferation. Worsening of hyperglycaemia induces infl...
2022 | Asian Journal of Research in Infectious Diseases | Pp. 25-33
Coronaviruses have become a global health threat over the past two decades as their geographical spread has accelerated. Coronavirus disease 2019, also known as COVID-19, is the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 The epidemic caused by (SARS-CoV-...
2022 | International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research | Pp. 37-42
COVID-19 has been reported as an ongoing global epidemic from Wuhan, China,since it first emerged in December 2019. Coronavirus disease, severe acuterespiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-2), is a zoonotic disease that can betransmitted from animals to huma...
2022 | International Journal of Innovative and Applied Research | Pp. 01-06
Afibrinogenemia is a rare blood clotting disorder with an estimated prevalence of 1: 1,000,000. It is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in one of the three genes encoding the three polypeptide chains of fibrinogen located on the long arm of c...
2022 | Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medical Research | Pp. 8-22
Codeine substitute challenges to drug and substance abuse controls in Nigeria: Histopathology evaluations of Norvegicus rattus on lacatomtom is novel research that aimed to evaluate the Codeine substitute challenges to drugs and substance abuse; histopatholog...
2022 | J Pub Health Nutri | Pp. 130
Background information: Survival of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) has increasedsince the emergency of High Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in 1996. HIV cascadeshave been constructed so that the final outcome is one that will have a positive effect...