December 2010

Symptomatic urogenital candidiasis and therapeutic management on women taking oral contraceptive pills

The use of oral contraceptive pills are increasingly becoming popular among women in both urban and rural Nigerian settings, and its perceived association with gynaecologic infections not withstanding. This study was therefore carried out to ascertain the rate of urogenital candidiasis among women on oral contraceptive pills (OCP) in Gboko town. All the willing women on OCP attending family planning clinic and...

Author(s): Jombo G. T. A., Akpera M. T., Adebisi S. I. and Bolarin D. M.

December 2010

Characterization and antibiogram of Salmonella spp. from poultry specimens

The present study was done for characterization and antibiotic sensitivity pattern of theSalmonella spp. found as contaminants in chicken carcass. The overall incidence ofSalmonella contamination of poultry carcass was found to be 4.90% with the higher percentage of Salmonella being isolated from chicken meat (8.00%) followed by liver and spleen (6.25%). The isolates were identified as...

Author(s): R. Selvaraj, R. Das, S. Ganguly, M. Ganguli, S. Dhanalakshmi and S. K. Mukhopadhayay

December 2010

Bacillus licheniformis IITRHR2: A novel source of antimicrobial proteinaceous food substance

Spoilage of food due to contamination by bacteria present in the environment is a major problem which affects human health and efforts to identify antibacterial components from natural sources has gained momentum. In this regard we isolated a new strain of Bacillus licheniformis IITRHR2 (accession number FJ447354) which produced bacteriocin like inhibitory substance (BLIS). Partially purified BLIS showed a...

Author(s): Sapna Sharma, Ram L. Singh and Poonam Kakkar