نتایج جستجو برای: Abia State

تعداد نتایج: 857397  

2013
Chukwuemeka Anthony Umeh Hycienth Peterson Ahaneku

INTRODUCTION Efforts at immunizing children against measles was intensified in Nigeria with nation-wide measles vaccination campaigns in 2005-2006, 2008 and 2011 targeting children between 9 and 59 months. However, there were measles outbreaks in 2010 and 2011 in Abia state Nigeria. This study seeks to find out if there is any association between measles immunization coverage and measles outbre...

The study analyzed factors that motivate agricultural extension agents in Agricultural Development Programme of Abia State. Primary data were collected from 96 extension agents in Abia State, Nigeria who were selected using multi-stage random sampling technique. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, mean score, ordered logit and Spearman rank correlation. It was revealed that 58.3% o...

Journal: :Journal of bacteriology 1997
P K Dinsmore T R Klaenhammer

A spontaneous mutant of the lactococcal phage phi31 that is insensitive to the phage defense mechanism AbiA was characterized in an effort to identify the phage factor(s) involved in sensitivity of phi31 to AbiA. A point mutation was localized in the genome of the AbiA-insensitive phage (phi31A) by heteroduplex analysis of a 9-kb region. The mutation (G to T) was within a 738-bp open reading fr...

Journal: :Annals of African medicine 2008
E Enwereji R Ekeh K O Enwereji

BACKGROUND Children of leprosy patients deserve social services such as free education, health care services including HIV/AIDS prevention like others. The extent to which these children benefit from such services is not clear. One expects that since they are exposed to health hazards in settlements that they would benefit immensely from preventive health care and other services. Study investig...

2014
Chukwuemeka Anthony Umeh Stella Chioma Onyi Nicola Decaro

Introduction. Rubella infection has the potential of causing severe fetal birth defects collectively called congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) if the mother is infected early in pregnancy. However, little is known about rubella and CRS epidemiology in Nigeria and rubella vaccines are still not part of routine childhood immunization in Nigeria. Methods. Analysis of confirmed cases of rubella in A...

2014
Gregory S Noland Patricia M Graves Adamu Sallau Abel Eigege Emmanuel Emukah Amy E Patterson Joseph Ajiji Iheanyichi Okorofor Oji Uka Oji Mary Umar Kal Alphonsus James Damen Jeremiah Ngondi Masayo Ozaki Elizabeth Cromwell Josephine Obiezu Solomon Eneiramo Chinyere Okoro Renn McClintic-Doyle Olusola Oresanya Emmanuel Miri Paul M Emerson Frank O Richards

BACKGROUND Nigeria suffers the world's largest malaria burden, with approximately 51 million cases and 207,000 deaths annually. As part of the country's aim to reduce by 50% malaria-related morbidity and mortality by 2013, it embarked on mass distribution of free long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs). METHODS Prior to net distribution campaigns in Abia and Plateau States, Nigeria, a modified...

Journal: :Zootaxa 2014
Andrew D Liston Henri Savina Zoltán Tamás Nagy Gontran Sonet Jean-Luc Boevé

We briefly review the taxonomy of Abia, and attempt to clarify their systematics by phylogenetic tree reconstructions inferred from three (nuclear and mitochondrial) genes of some West Palaearctic and Nearctic species. The main question which we asked is whether the distinction, made by several authors, of two genera within this group is justified. Based on the species here sampled, our results...

2014
Chukwuemeka Oluoha Chukwuemeka Umeh Hycienth Ahaneku

The vision of Nigeria's immunization program is to reach and sustain routine immunization coverage of greater than 90% for all vaccines by 2020. In order to achieve this, Abia state embarked on a unique private-public partnership (PPP) between private health facilities and the Abia state ministry of health. The aim of this partnership was to collaborate with private health facilities to provide...

Journal: :Ethnicity & disease 2013
Okechukwu S Ogah Okechukwu O Madukwe Innocent I Chukwuonye Ugochukwu U Onyeonoro Andrew U Ukegbu Moses O Akhimien Basden J C Onwubere Ikechi G Okpechi

OBJECTIVE Hypertension is the most common non-communicable disease and risk factor for heart failure, stroke, chronic kidney disease and ischemic heart disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Few population-based studies have been conducted recently in Nigeria and, in Abia State, no previous study has been conducted on the prevalence and correlates of hypertension among the populace. The purpose of our ...

Journal: :AIDS 2003
Robert H Remien Francisco Inàcio Bastos Alan Berkman Veriano Terto Juan Carlos Raxach Richard G Parker

HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, NY State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Department of Health Information, Center for Information in Science and Technology, the Oswald Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for AIDS (ABIA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School o...

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