A study of 150 hotel prostitutes in Lagos was undertaken to determine their socioeconomic identity and, through an assessment of their health knowledge, attitude, and practice, their probable impact on public health. The subjects were selected from 15 hotels, representing 20% of the estimated hotel universe in Lagos and different socioeconomic strata. Information was obtained from the subjects ...

Fibrous dysplasia (FD) belongs to a group of lesions known as fibro osseous lesions (FOL) whereby normal bone is replaced with fibrous tissue containing abnormal bone or cementum. FOL are the most frequent and the most difficult lesions to diagnose, as they share overlapping spectrum of clinicopathological, radiological, and immunological characteristics. In this retrospective study of 134 maxi...

The management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in Nigeria and most developing countries has remained a major public health challenge, thus creating the need for reliable and environmentally-acceptable alternatives. This study focuses on composting assessment as a viable recovery alternative for MSW in six States of Southwest Nigeria, namely: Ekiti, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, and Lagos. Extensive lit...

Background: Poisons are chemical substances which produce harmful effects on the body. About 0.3 million people die annually from poisoning. Poisons are produced by animals, plants, microorganisms and by food contamination. Poisoning is a global public health problem, especially in children and teenagers and systems ought to be in place for its management by healthcare providers. Objectives: T...

BACKGROUND: Malignant tumours of the gastro-intestinal tract are not as rare as previous studies suggest. Recent studies have indicated increasing incidence. OBJECTIVE: To document the pattern, age and sex distribution as well as histopathology characteristics of malignant tumours of the gastro-intestinal system in Lagos and Sagamu in South-

Catalina Dussaillant ([email protected]) Valentina Serrano ([email protected]) Alberto Maiz ([email protected]) Susana Eyheramendy ([email protected]) Luis Rodrigo Cataldo ([email protected]) Matías Chávez ([email protected]) Susan V Smalley ([email protected]) Attilio Rigotti ([email protected]) Lorena Rubio ([email protected]) Carlos F Lagos ([email protected]) José A Martinez (jalfm...

P. GEBAUER1,2, K.A. PASCHKE2 and K. ANGER3* Centro de Investigaciones I-MAR, Universidad de Los Lagos, Casilla 557 Puerto Montt, Chile Facultad de Pesquerías y Oceanografía, Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 1327, Puerto Montt, Chile Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Stiftung Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polarund Meeresforschung, 27498 Helgoland, Germany Tel. +49 (4725) 819348; Fax +49 (4725) 8...

this study utilizes a decade long (2005-2014) monthly data of total column tropospheric ozone (tcto) in dubson units to evaluate the spatial and temporal trend of lao over some major cities of west africa, namely lagos, accra, niamey, abuja, bamako, dakar, agadez, conakry, kano, and ouagadougou which are either capital cites or major commercial hubs, where the population ranges from 0.09 millio...

BACKGROUND The daily use of Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) prophylaxis reduces morbidity and mortality among patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) but its impact on increasing antimicrobial resistance rates has been of public health concern, globally. This study investigated the effect of daily TMP-SMX prophylaxis on feacal carriage rates of resistant isolates of Es...

Department of Chemistry, University of Lagos, Akoka-Lagos, Nigeria. Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharm. Tech., University of Lagos, Nigeria. Corresponding Author: T.O. Oluseyi ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are carcinogenic pollutants which get into foods during processing. In spite of this, only a ...