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• 1. IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF IMMUNO-MODULATORY PROPERTIES OF PREBIOTICS EXTR...

  » ABSTRACT   Prebiotics are non digestible food substances that when consumed provide a beneficial physiological effect on the host, by selectively stimulating the favourable growth or activity of a limited number of indigenous bacteria. Most known prebiotics are complex carbohydrates commonly found in fruits, vegetables and plant products. Vernonia amygdalina, commonly called bitter leaf is widel...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  5,377 engagements | 

• 2. MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROFILES OF CLINICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISOLATES OF PSEUDOMO...

  »   Abstract   The emergence of multiple antibiotic resistance in bacteria and the indiscriminate use of antibiotics contribute to the dissemination of resistant pathogens in the environment which may cause problems in therapy and is a serious public health issue. This study was conducted to determine the incidence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and E.coli isolates in certain clinical and environme...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  6,982 engagements | 

• 3. STUDIES ON THE CO-INFECTIVITY OF HIV AND ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIA

  » ABSTRACT   The increasing global incidence of tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) has been attributed to immunosuppresion due to the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic.  The paucity of information on the contribution of NTM to mycobacterial infections in Africa including Nigeria has however been closely associated with limited laboratory culture for its isolation and ide...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  5,510 engagements | 

• 4. STUDIES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF BETA-LACTAMASES IN MEMBERS OF THE GENERA Salmonella...

  » ABSTRACT   Salmonella and Shigella species isolated from human faecal samples were examined for Beta lactamase production and resistance to some antibiotic agents. Age distribution of sources of resistant isolates showed thatShigella isolates from Youths (18 30 years) were more resistant to Ampicillin (66.67%) and Augmentin (33.33%) than isolates from Infants (6 months 4 years) which showed ...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  5,472 engagements | 

• 5. SYNERGISTIC EFFECT OF BACTERIOCIN-LIKE INHIBITORY SUBSTANCES PRODUCED BY VAGINAL...

  »   ABSTRACT   The vaginal normal flora of a healthy woman is dominated by species of Lactobacillus. The balance between the vaginal flora is maintained by the protective antagonizing compounds produced by Lactobacillus. Group B Streptococci (GBS) is an opportunistic organism usually carried asymptomatically by pregnant women but cause severe neonatal infections. Antibiotics chemotherapy pos...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  5,574 engagements | 

• 6. EVALUATION OF ELEPHANT GRASS (PENNISETUM PURPUREUM) AS SUBSTRATE FOR BIOETHANOL ...

  » ABSTRACT   Elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) was evaluated for its ethanol production potential using co cultures of Aspergillus niger and Saccharomyces cerevisiaeisolated from local sources. Proximate and lignocellulose analysis carried out on the plant sample showed that it had crude fibre, lignin, hemicellulose and cellulose contents of 31.5%, 26.78%, 18.76% and 34.16% respectively. As...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  6,050 engagements | 

• 7. INTESTINAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS AND ITS POSSIBLE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

  » ABSTRACT Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that ranks second only to malaria in terms of human suffering in the tropics and subtropics. Five species are known to infect man and there are currently over 240 million people infected worldwide. The cornerstone of control to date has been mass drug administration with 40 mg/kg of praziquantel but there are problems with this approach. Hum...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  7,383 engagements | 

• 8. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF TWO SELECTED MEDICATED SOAP AND O...

  » ABSTRACT Two medicated soaps and one local soap were investigated for their antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus. Identification of the bacteria species was by standard microbiological techniques which included colonial examination, gram staining, and biochemical testing. Minimum inhibitory and minimum bactericidal activities of the soaps were determined by disc agar diffusion m...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  9,637 engagements | 

• 9. DETERMINE THE PREVALENCE OF GASTROINTESTINAL HELMINTH AMONG SLAUGHTERED CATTLE

  » CHARPTER ONEINTRODUCTION Ruminants such as cattle, goat and sheep represent an important source of animal protein in many countries of the world, supplying a good percentage of the daily meat and dairy products in cities and villages. Apart from being the source of animal protein, their waste are also very important in agriculture (Nwosu et al., 2007).In many parts of the world, cattle production ...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  6,117 engagements | 

• 10. MICROBIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF SELECTED CREAMS

  » ABSTRACTCosmetic(creams) need not be sterile,however they must not be unduly contaminated with micro organism and should remain in a stable state throughout the shelf life of the product (or when be used by the consumer).the aim of this project was to determine the microbial load in selected creams and to identify the specific contaminants.For the determination of the number of contaminants, 1 mL ...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  10,474 engagements | 

• 11. EVALUATING THE IN-VIVO EFFECTS OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF A. BOONEI ON LIVER ENZYM...

  » INTRODUCTION1.1Background of StudyThe present decade has witnessed a great and intense resurgence in the interest and use of the plant (Briskin., 2000). The healing power of herbs identified and botanical medicine has been one of the oldest practiced professions by humanity (Oduolaet al ., 2007). In fact, the use of synthetic pharmaceutical products and hepatotoxic agent reported not only to conne...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  97 engagements | 

• 12. DETERMINE THE PREVALENCE OF GASTROINTESTINAL HELMINTH AMONG SLAUGHTERED CATTLE I...

  » CHARPTER ONEINTRODUCTIONRuminants such as cattle, goat and sheep represent an important source of animal protein in many countries of the world, supplying a good percentage of the daily meat and dairy products in cities and villages. Apart from being the source of animal protein, their waste are also very important in agriculture (Nwosu et al., 2007).In many parts of the world, cattle production i...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  99 engagements | 

• 13. THE EFFECTS OF MATERNAL NUTRITION ON THE EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING OF INFANTS

  » ABSTRACT  The researcher investigated the effects of maternal nutrition on the exclusive breastfeeding of infants in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of maternal nutrition, socio economic status, occupation, and perception on the exclusive breastfeeding of infants in Egor Local Government Area. To guide the study, four research questio...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  7,266 engagements | 

• 14. THE INCIDENCE OF SALMONELLA AND ESCHERCHIA COLI IN LIVESTOCK (POULTRY) FEEDS

  » ABSTRACT        This work is aimed at determining the incidence of bacterial injections such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli which cause health hazards to the  poultry in their feeds.  Sample feed were obtained from commercial mash operation/ pellet mill operation at New heaven and top feed at Ogbete main market Enugu.  The samples were screened for total aerobic bacteria count, t...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  5,428 engagements | 

• 15. FUNGI ASSOCIATED D WITH THE SPOILAGE OF COCOYAM (Colocasia esculenta)

  » ABSTRACT Fungi associated with the spoilage of cocoyam (Colocasia esculenta) during storage at ambient temperature (28+20c) was investigated in this study. This was done by cutting the damaged portion of the cocoyam tubers and blend with diluents (water) to have even distribution of the microorganism and ensure ease of plating out. This done with the sample and inoculation was done from the 4th te...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  35 pages |  5,950 engagements | 

• 16. ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIA ASSOCIATED WITH HAWKED SUYA-MEAT

  » ABSTRACT This project work is carried at the isolation and characterization of pathogenic bacteria from hawked suya meat,  were bought in full from the sellers and was collected in raps of aluminum foil. It was then taken to the laboratory for analysis the samples were homogenized and serial dilution of the sample was made out using 5 ml sterile pipette and test tubes. The dilution were  then cu...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  572 engagements | 

• 17. MICROORGANISM ASSOCIATED WITH SPOILAGE OF TOMATOES (CANNED TOMATOES)

  » ABSTRACT The micro organism, associated with spoilage of tomatoes shows that tomato contain large amount of water which makes them more susceptible to spoilage by the action of various micro organism. Out of  the (3) three sources of samples used in the assessment revealed that Bacillus species identified in the spoiled sample are  the major causes of canned spoilage while the fungi isolates are...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  0 engagements | 

• 18. RELEVANCE OF BLOOD CULTURE TO THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF SEPTICAEMIA

  » Chapter one 1.0   Introduction 1.1   Blood culture 1.2   Septicaemia 1.3   Objectives of the research 1.4   Justification Chapter two 2.0     Literature review 2.1     Septicaemia 2.2     Causes of septicaemia 2.3     Detecting bacteria from the blood in septicaemia 2.4     Factors that predispose to bloodstream infection 2.5     Causative organisms 2.6     Blo...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  6,244 engagements | 

• 19. THE TREATMENT TO PREVENT SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE

  » ABSTRACT This project give a summary of the entire research study which was designed to find out the way and the way forward in the treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted disease in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. This study include respondents in secondary schools, tertiary institutions, civil servants, traders, which were reviewed were the mode of transmission, factors predisp...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  6,269 engagements | 

• 20. ASSESSMENT OF THE EXISTING DUMPSITES

  » CHAPTER ONE Introduction Background of Study Wastes can be considered, as those materials no longer required by an individual, institution or industry. Wastes are thus regarded as by products or end products of the production and consumption process respectively. Solid waste can be defined as: ‘The useless and unwanted products in the solid state derived from the activities of the society and he...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  65 pages |  6,595 engagements | 

• 21. THE ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF THE CRUDE METHANOL EXTRACT AND FRACTIONS OF ALBIZI...

  » THE ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF THE CRUDE METHANOL EXTRACT AND FRACTIONS OF ALBIZIAZYGIA STEM BARK. CHAPTER ONE   1.0 INTRODUCTIONPlants had been used for medicinal purposes long before recorded history. Ancient Chinese and Egyptian papyrus writings describe medicinal uses for plants as early as 3000BC. Indigenous cultures(such as African and Native Americans) used herbs in their healing rituals, w...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  62 pages |  5,245 engagements | 

• 22. EVALUATING THE IN-VIVO EFFECTS OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF A. BOONEI ON LIVER ENZYM...

  » EVALUATING THE IN VIVO EFFECTS OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF A. BOONEI ON LIVER ENZYME FUNCTION IN ALLOXAN INDUCED DIABETES MELLITUS. INTRODUCTION1.1Background of StudyThe present decade has witnessed a great and intense resurgence in the interest and use of the plant (Briskin., 2000). The healing power of herbs identified and botanical medicine has been one of the oldest practiced professions ...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  78 pages |  5,149 engagements | 

• 23. DETERMINE THE PREVALENCE OF GASTROINTESTINAL HELMINTH AMONG SLAUGHTERED CATTLE I...

  » CHARPTER ONEINTRODUCTIONRuminants such as cattle, goat and sheep represent an important source of animal protein in many countries of the world, supplying a good percentage of the daily meat and dairy products in cities and villages. Apart from being the source of animal protein, their waste are also very important in agriculture (Nwosu et al., 2007).In many parts of the world, cattle production i...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  59 pages |  5,513 engagements | 

• 24. THE EFFECTS OF MATERNAL NUTRITION ON THE EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING OF INFANTS IN E...

  »     ABSTRACT  The researcher investigated the effects of maternal nutrition on the exclusive breastfeeding of infants in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of maternal nutrition, socio economic status, occupation, and perception on the exclusive breastfeeding of infants in Egor Local Government Area. To guide the study, four research ...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  54 pages |  5,131 engagements | 

• 25. MICROORGANISM ASSOCIATED WITH SPOILAGE OF TOMATOES (CANNED TOMATOES)

  » MICROORGANISM ASSOCIATED WITH  SPOILAGE  OF TOMATOES (CANNED TOMATOES) TABLE OF CONTENT Chapter one 1.0        Introduction                                Chapter Two 2.0        Literature  review        2.1    History of canned tomato     2.2    Types of canned Tomatoes           2.3    Nutrition facts of canned tomato...Continue Reading »

  Item Type: Project Material |  30 pages |  11,815 engagements |