Anaplasmosis, a disease caused by various species of Anaplasma, poses important economic constraints to animal breeders. In Zaria, molecular detection tick-borne pathogens infecting cattle is very sketchy. Being hematophagous, ticks are capable transmitting agents such as viruses, bacteria and protozoa. This study was carried out detect for the presence Anaplasma pathogen in tick infesting whit...

OBJECTIVE Postoperative pain is one of the most common complications of surgery. The pattern of management varies between centers. The current study aimed to study the prescription pattern and the common drugs used in the management of postoperative pain in adult surgical patients at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH; Zaria, Nigeria). METHODS Following ethical approval, a prosp...

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are part of the normal microbial flora skin and mucous membranes. Nasal colonization with antibiotic-resistant CoNS represents both a risk factor for colonized individual their immediate contacts. This study determines antibiotics susceptibility pattern resistance phenotypes to specific group antimicrobial agents in isolate from nares adult patients Ahmad...

296. Discovery of New Class of Trypanocidal Compounds Targeting the Energy Metabolism of African Trypanosomes Emmanuel Oluwadare Balogun, PhD; Daniel Ken Inaoka, PhD; Tomoo Shiba, PhD; Yoh-Ichi Watanabe, PhD; Anthony Moore, PhD; Shigeharu Harada, PhD and Kiyoshi Kita, PhD; Department of Biochemistry, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, Nigeria, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health...

296. Discovery of New Class of Trypanocidal Compounds Targeting the Energy Metabolism of African Trypanosomes Emmanuel Oluwadare Balogun, PhD; Daniel Ken Inaoka, PhD; Tomoo Shiba, PhD; Yoh-Ichi Watanabe, PhD; Anthony Moore, PhD; Shigeharu Harada, PhD and Kiyoshi Kita, PhD; Department of Biochemistry, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, Nigeria, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health...

ABSTRACT: In this study the non-saponifiable matter of oils extracted from nine varieties of sunflower seed were subjected a series of chemical tests. The non-saponifiable matters were fractionated into a number of chemical classes of compounds namely sterols, 4 methyl sterols, triterpene alcohols, tocopherols and hydrocarbons. The two major and important classes of compounds consisting of ster...

Otitis media is an inflammatory disease of the mucosal lining middle ear. It occurs more frequently in children due to shorter and horizontal eustachian tube their ears. The focus this study determining prevalence otitis aged 6 months – 10 years attending a primary health care facility Samaru, Zaria, Nigeria. Fifty swabs from ear discharge imparted wax were obtained subjects regardless whether ...