INTRODUCTION Prostate cancer (CaP) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Nigerian men but CaP screening is not a common practice. The true burden of the disease in Nigeria is not known. The study was aimed at studying the community burden of CaP in Lagos. METHODS During a community-based prostate cancer awareness program in 13 local government areas of Lagos, men aged >40 years had seru...

BACKGROUND Enterococci are responsible for up to 12% of cases of healthcare associated infections worldwide and cause life threatening infections among critically ill patients. They show intrinsic and acquired resistance to a wide range of antimicrobial agents. Glycopeptide resistance is due to vanA, vanB, vanC, vanD, vanE, vanG and vanL genes. OBJECTIVES To determine the carriage rate of VRE...

The dynamics of viral bioaerosols are unknown; hence, its detection and control may be complicated. In this study, the structural analysis Influenza A, SARS Coronavirus, IBV Coronavirus was adequately discussed. infection pattern coronavirus further investigated using dataset from Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Nigeria, 'Ourworldindata' datasets in parts China. artificial neural net...

Armin Bidarian-Moniri Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Regenerative Medicine Program, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal; Department of Clinical Sciences, S Gonçalo Academy, Hospital S Gonçalo, Lagos, Portugal

2007-4085/© 2016 Sociedad Mexicana de Urología. Publicado por Masson Doyma México S.A. Este es un artículo Open Access bajo la licencia CC BY-NC-ND (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). *Corresponding author at: Calle Lago Camecuaro, número 733, interior 9, Colonia Lagos del Country, Zapopan, Jalisco, México. Telephone: +3316012757. Email: maverick [email protected], jeceballoslop...

PCR Method To Identify Salmonella enterica Serovars Typhi, Paratyphi A, and Paratyphi B among Salmonella Isolates from the Blood of Patients with Clinical Enteric Fever Haim Levy, Souleymane Diallo, Sharon M. Tennant, Sofie Livio, Samba O. Sow, Milagritos Tapia, Patricia I. Fields, Matthew Mikoleit, Boubou Tamboura, Karen L. Kotloff, Rosanna Lagos, James P. Nataro, James E. Galen, and Myron M. ...

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of diagnostic and therapeutic facilities in Nigeria to confirm coronary artery disease and offer appropriate interventional therapy. There is now a private cardiac catheterization laboratory in Lagos but as there are no sustained Open Heart Surgery programmes, percutaneous coronary interventions are currently being performed without surgical backup. This study was ...

freshwater lens on small islands may easily be overexploited or polluted due to overdrafts of fresh water by pumping which causes drawdown of the water table a rise or up-coning of the saltwater interface. present study is concerned with using a three-dimensional finite-difference numerical model to simulate the groundwater flow and transport model to predict the behavior of groundwater system ...

BACKGROUND Children are the most risk prone in cases of burns. The previous epidemiologic study of paediatric burns in Lagos-Nigeria was carried four decades ago. A new study becomes necessary in view of the increasing incidences of petroleum related fire disasters in Nigeria. PATIENTS AND METHODS : Children up to the age of 14 years admitted for major burns at the Lagos State University Teac...