| [a note on the first case of dry gangrene of the limbs in cattle, caused by salmonella typhimurium in ghana]. | ischaemia and terminal tissue dry gangrene are among the sequels of salmonella infection. up to now, these lesions had been described in europe and in chile, on calf exclusively. this time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the accra plains (ghana) and infected by s. typhimurium. this case give evidence of the spreading of salmonellosis on the african continent and should foster the search of adequate control measures. | 1990 | 2218035 |
| cockroaches (periplaneta americana) as carriers of agents of bacterial diarrhoea in accra, ghana. | bodies and intestinal contents of 208 cockroaches (periplaneta americana), collected from kitchens in accra and some surrounding villages were cultured for enteric bacterial pathogens. six of them harboured three different serogroups of salmonella, one had shigella dysenteriae, 64 had coliforms, 13 had proteus species, two had pseudomonas species and the rest (122) carried none of the bacterial species mentioned above. the presence of salmonella species shigella dysenteriae and coliforms in thes ... | 1989 | 2611875 |
| street foods in accra, ghana: how safe are they? | to investigate the microbial quality of foods sold on streets of accra and factors predisposing to their contamination. | 2002 | 12163918 |
| antibiotic resistance and genotyping of clinical group b salmonella isolated in accra, ghana. | the purpose of this study was to investigate the antibiotic resistance and clonal lineage of serogroup b salmonella isolated from patients suspected of suffering from enteric fever in accra, ghana. | 2003 | 12534821 |
| cryptosporidium spp., a frequent cause of diarrhea among children at the korle-bu teaching hospital, accra, ghana. | this report presents the results of a study conducted at the child health department, korle-bu teaching hospital, accra, ghana, between the months of october 2001 and june 2002. stool samples from 227 children with diarrhea and 77 children without diarrhea, aged less than 5 years, were tested for cryptosporidium spp. prevalence rates were 27.8 and 15.6% in children with and without diarrhea, respectively. cryptosporidium infection was found to be high in children between the ages of 6 and 24 mon ... | 2004 | 15507781 |
| cryptosporidium oocysts in ghanaian aids patients with diarrhoea. | although cryptosporidiumspp. infections in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients (aids) with chronic diarrhoea have been reported in several african countries, there is no information regarding cryptosporidial diarrhoea in ghanaian aids patients. | 2003 | 16167753 |
| pilot-scale vermicomposting of pineapple wastes with earthworms native to accra, ghana. | pineapple wastes, an abundant organic waste in accra, ghana, were vermicomposted using native earthworms (eudrilus eugeniae kinberg) collected from the banks of streams and around bath houses of this city. triplicate pilot-scale vermidigesters containing about 90 earthworms and three other control boxes with no earthworms were fed pineapple pulp or peels, and the loss of wet mass was monitored over 20 weeks. in a second experiment, a 1:1 mixture of pineapple peels and pulp (w/w) was fed to tripl ... | 2009 | 19620003 |