A total of 53 trachea, air sacs, lung, and infra orbital sinus exudates were collected from 5 commercially reared Japanese quail farms showing typical symptoms of infectious coryza. Avibacterium paragallinarum was isolated and identified using selective media and by biochemical identification methods. Biochemical identification tests such as satellitism, IMViC tests and carbohydrate fermentatio...

A total of 231 hospitalised children were studied for bacteriuria; they were divided into symptomatic and asymptomatic groups. The cases with significant bacteriuria (10 organisms/mi of urine) only were considered positive. Five percent of the total cases had significant bacteriuria, a large majority of them being girls. In the symptomatic group the frequency of UTI was 6% while in the asymptom...

Drug should be used appropriately, safely and only when needed 50% or more of drug expenditure may be wasted through irrational prescribing, dispensing and patient use of drugs. Drug use evaluation is one of the useful methods to evaluate the rational use of drug in health institution and has performance of improved method that focus evaluation and improving medication use process with the goal...

Cholera is a significant public health threat across the globe, especially in coastal regions with poor water supply. This study was carried out to determine antibiogram, genomic, and phylogeny of stool seafood isolates from some cholera-prone communities Rivers State, Nigeria. A total 400 samples 42 different were aseptically collected examined using standard microbiology molecular techniques....

Background/objective: Neonatal septicemia is one of the major causes of mortality in newborns. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical manifestations and laboratory findings in positive blood culture in neonatal septicemia. Methods: In this retrospective study, we allocated 100 records positive blood culture of neonates suffering from septicemia. A questionnaire was completed for each...

Gram-negative bacteria were collected from different clinical labs situated in Karachi. Of these 83 isolates, 99% found resistant against one or more of the following antibiotics: ampicillin, co-amoxiclav, gentamycin, neomycin, streptomycin and tetracycline. Most isolates multi-drug (MDR) having resistance to three antibiotics at a time. For 4.8% Susceptible, 3.6% Intermediate while 91.5% Resis...