African Journal of
Microbiology Research

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Microbiol. Res.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1996-0808
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJMR
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 5238

Table of Content: 7 January, 2019; 13(1)

January 2019

Evaluation of starter culture fermented sweet potato flour using FTIR spectra and GCMS Chromatogram

Starch is the major component of cereal grains and starchy foods, and changes in its biophysical and biochemical properties (such as, amylose, amylopectin, pasting, gelatinization, viscosity) will have a direct effect on its end use properties (such as, bread, malt, polymers). Lactobacillus brevis and Debaromyces polymorphous  earlier obtained from fermented sweet poatao broth were used to ferment sweet potato and...

Author(s): Ajayi O. I., Okedina T. A.,  Samuel A. E.,  Asieba G. O., Jegede A. A., Onyemali C. P., Ehiwuogu-Onyibe J., Lawal A. K. and Elemo G. N.  

January 2019

In vitro antibacterial activity of Rumex nervosus and Clematis simensis plants against some bacterial human pathogens

Due to quick growth of resistance and high cost of new generation antibiotics, lots of efforts were made to discover new antimicrobial agents from various sources. So, current study was assessed antibacterial activity of ethanol, methanol, acetone, diethyl ether and hexane leave extracts of Rumex nervosus and Clematis simensis by used paper disc diffusion and broth dilution procedures against six human pathogenic...

Author(s): Habtamu Tedila and Addisu Assefa  

January 2019

Study on bovine mastitis with isolation of bacterial and fungal causal agents and assessing antimicrobial resistance patterns of isolated Staphylococcus species in and around Sebeta town, Ethiopia

A cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2016 to May 2017 in and around Sebeta town with the aim of assessing the prevalence of mastitis, isolation of aerobic bacterial and fungal causal agents and assessing antimicrobial resistance pattern of isolated Staphylococcus species in dairy cows. From a total of 383 dairy cows, 220 (57.4%) were found to be positive for mastitis of which 10.4% were affected by...

Author(s): Tesfaye Bekele, Matios Lakew, Getachew Terefe, Tafesse Koran, Abebe Olani, Letebrihan Yimesgen, Mekdes Tamiru and Tilaye Demissie