Herbal mixture such as agbo, has been used in recent years Nigeria to treat various sicknesses including malaria, typhoid, dysentery and cholera. However, the bacteriological quality safety is of paramount importance spurring argument whether it treatment option or sources pathogen transmission. Hence this study was conducted investigate analysis agbo herbal preparations. Samples were purchased...

background; providing safe drinking water is a prime concerninany community. this analytical study was carried out to evaluate the microbial quality of drinking water in rural areas of northeastern iran. methods;the water microbial quality was determined in all villages (a population of 53047 people), in 3 rounds and based on 3 measurements, i.e. total coliform, fecal coliform, and heterotrophi...

in order to investigate the prevalence of mannheimia haemolytica infection in cattle, nasal andnasopharyngeal swabs and blood samples were obtained from 250 cattle after slaughter at ahvaz(southwestern iran) abattoir. nasal and nasopharyngeal swabs were cultured on blood agar and incubated at37°c for 24-48 h. the suspected bacterial cultures were processed for isolation of m. haemolytica follow...

nonpasturized cream is usually contaminated with different types of pathogens, and its use in foodstuffs such as creamy cake and ice-cream is the main cause of contamination of such foodstuffs. the purpose of the analysis was to show the contamination rate of nonpasturized cream and foodstuffs in which such creams are used. studies carried out on 70 samples from 231 distribution centers, from d...

The term food preservation refers to any one of a number of techniques used to prevent food from spoiling. The following are the general methods of food preservation:  application of heat, such as canning and preserving, pasteurization, evaporation, sun-drying, dehydration and smoking,  application of cold, as ill cold storage, refrigeration and freezing,  the use of chemical substances such...

The Limulus endotoxin assay was compared to the standard plate count and total coliform count for assessment of the bacteriological quality of reclaimed wastewater. A total of 48 water samples from an advanced waste treatment plant in Dallas, Tex. were examined by the three techniques. Limulus assays were technically simpler to perform and provided results much sooner than conventional culture ...

Neisseria canis was isolated in pure culture from a mandibular abscess in a dog. Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration was used to obtain a sample from the abscess. Conventional bacteriological examination techniques followed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing from pure subculture and construction of a phylogenetic tree verified the isolate as N. canis. 16S rRNA sequence analysis revealed that a br...

The central nervous system is a very delicate and vulnerable organ which enjoys protection by layers of coverings. It is described as an immunological vacuum, and when afflicted by infections the outcome is most often devastating. Factors leading to compromise of the host defense play a major role in establishing neurosurgical infections. A number of such factors can either be avoided or minimi...

Five techniques for Gram staining bacteria in paraffin sections were compared on serial sections of pulmonary tissues from eight bacteriological necropsies. Brown and Hopp's method was the most satisfactory for distinguishing Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. However, this method cannot be recommended as the preparations were frequently overstained, and the Gram-negative bacteria were s...