BACKGROUND Gynaecological problems in children and adolescents are often both medically and psychologically unique and require a highly skilled approach differing from those utilized for an adult female population. There is paucity of data on childhood gynaecological problems in our environment. The purpose of this study was to document the prevalence and pattern of common gynaecological proble...

The aim of this study is to determine the anogenital distance in male and female newborns in Zaria and possible causes of variation. The anogenital distance (AGD), serum testosterone and anthropometric measurements of 200 newborns was measured (100 male, 100 female). Data obtained were analysed using Student t-test, ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation as applicable. The mean total anogenital distan...

Poultry Environment and farm Practices Influencing the Isolation rate of Multi-Drug Resistant Salmonella from water feed in Zaria, NigeriaMUSA, I.W., MANSUR, M.S., SA’IDU, L., MOHAMMED B, ALIYU, H.B

Background: Zoonotic gastrointestinal parasites of dogs are of the global problem particularly in the developing countries. Dogs are the most common pet animals worldwide and have been reported to be hosts of many intestinal parasites of zoonotic importance globally. In Nigeria, gastrointestinal helminthes of dogs is currently endemic in 20 of the 36 states. Aim: In general, dogs are the closes...

metals concentrations in lumbricus terrestris and soil samples from the dumpsites located in zaria metropolis, nigeria were measured spectrophotometrically. mean metal content in dumpsite soils were: 25.95 - 75.17, 8.33 - 382.94, 124.84 - 206.96, 34.24 - 666.67 and 111.11 - 488.10mg/kg for cd, cu, mn, pb and zn respectively. while the concentration ranges recorded in l. terrestris samples were;...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is the commonest gynecological malignancy in our environment and is an Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)-associated malignancy. Documented data on the Human Immune-deficiency Virus (HIV) seroprevalence among patients with cervical cancer in our environment are scarce. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of HIV infection in women w...

The study was carried out at the poultry unit of Department Animal Science teaching and research farm, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to determine Chemical Microbial Analysis Poultry Litter Treated with Graded Levels Aluminium sulphate (Alum). alum used obtained from Sabon-garimarket in Zaria, Kaduna State. (alum) applied wood shavings by mixing it thoroughly using hands covered hand gloves. ra...

1- Directorate of Research and Development, Nigerian Institute Leather Science Technology, Zaria, Nigeria 2- , [email protected] 3- Department Microbiology, Ahmadu Bello University, 4- Medical Laboratory Sciences, University Calabar, 5- Industrial Environmental Pollution Department, National for Chemical

368 strains of Shigella were recovered from stool specimens in the Department of Medical Microbiology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, during the period January 1980 to December 1984. S. flexneri was found to be the most common (60%) followed by S. boydii (20.7%), S. dysenteriae (14.1%) and S. sonnei (5.2%). Males were more frequently infected (61.4%) than females (38.6%). Max...