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2019 | International Journal of Microbiology | Pp. 1-8
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the major causes of morbidity and comorbidities in patients with underlying conditions, and it accounts for the majority of the reasons for hospital visit globally. Sound knowledge of factors associated with UTI may...
2019 | Journal of Environmental and Public Health | Pp. 1-8
Introduction. Waterborne diseases constitute a major public health burden in developing and underdeveloped countries.Consumption of contaminated water causes health risk to the public, and the situation is alarming in rural areas. *e objective of this study w...
2019 | Pan African Medical Journal | Pp. 2-10
Introduction: superbugs are pathogenic micro-organism and especially a bacterium that has developed resistance to the medications normally used against it. As the superbug family increases, the need for appropriate diagnostic, treatment, prevention and contro...
2019 | African Journal of Microbiology Research | Pp. 2-9
Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most important opportunistic bacterial pathogens that cause serious health care associated complications in hospitalized patients. This leads to prolong hospital stay which increase cost to both healthcare provider and fa...
2019 | GSJ: Volume 7, Issue 11, November 2019, Online: ISSN 2320-9186 | Pp. 862-874
The economy of Montserrat was severely disrupted by volcanic activity which began in July 1995. Prior to this date, Montserrat is an open and dependent micro-economy with limited economic activity which is the biggest threat to sustainable energy development....
2019 | Sch J Arts Humanit Soc Sci ISSN 2347-9493 (Print) | ISSN 2347-5374 (Online) | Pp. 800-803
The educational sector is the largest enterprise whose function remains indispensable. It is the centre for research, human resource development and highly dependable to proffer solutions to global needs therefore, quality assurance in this industry cannot be...
2019 | International Journal of Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Research Vol. 06, Issue 07, pp.5086-5089, July, 2019 | Pp. 5086-5089
This paper looked at Distance Education and Human Resource Development in Nigeria. It examined the history of distance education in Nigeria and its features. It also examined the benefits of distance education as well as its problems. It suggested various way...
2019 | Pathogens 2019, 8, x; www.mdpi.com/journal/pathogens | Pp. 1-16
Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) has the ability to infect latently at the level of individual CD4+ cells. Latent HIV-1 proviruses are transcriptionally silent and immunologically inert, but still capable of reactivating productive lytic infection follo...
2019 | AGATHOS | Pp. 191-200
It is increasingly becoming a common practice to get people with tattoos, especially the youth, in Uganda today. In the past, tattoos were reserved for special subgroups like seamen (sailors), and motorcycle riders (bikers). However, it is now prevalent in ot...
2019 | Asian Pac J Cancer Prev, 21 (5), | Pp. 1247-1252
Background: Recently, nanoparticle synthesis by eco-friendly methods has received tremendous attention due to the method advantages and also because of the application of the nanoparticles in cancer research. Therefore, in this study, we synthesized silver na...