| phytochemical and antimicrobial properties of constituents of "ogwu odenigbo", a popular nigerian herbal medicine for typhoid fever. | the ethylacetate-insoluble fraction of the methanol extract of "ogwu odenigbo" a popular nigerian traditional herbal medicine for typhoid fever prepared from the stem bark of cleistropholis patens benth, (annonaceae), was separated into 13 semi-characterized constituents by preparatory tlc. the in vitro antimicrobial activities of the 13 fractions were quantitatively and/or qualitatively assessed by the agar well diffusion method using staphylococcus aureus, bacillus subtilis, escherichia coli, ... | 2001 | 11180528 |
| efficacy of some nupe medicinal plants against salmonella typhi: an in vitro study. | different medicinal plants: euphobia hirta (eh); citrus aurantifolia (ca), cassia occidentalis (co), and cassia eucalyptus (ce), which are claimed by the nupes of bida in niger state of nigeria to be effective in the treatment of typhoid fever were collected. ethanolic and water extracts were obtained by standard procedures. preliminary phytochemical screening showed that alkaloids were absent in all the parts of eh, co, and ca studied, but present in all the parts of ce studied. saponins were a ... | 2002 | 11891083 |
| production, acceptability and microbiological evaluation of weaning food formulations. | weaning food formulations were produced from pearl millet cultivar (sosat c-88), cowpea and groundnut in the ratio of 70:20:10 and 5 per cent malt from six pearl millet cultivars (sosat c-88, zango, ex-borno, icmv is 94206, gwagwa, gb 8735) and one sorghum cultivar (icsv iii) were added to produce seven formulations plus the one without malt. microbiological quality of eight weaning food formulations was evaluated. twenty weaning mothers were used to determine the acceptability of gruels from th ... | 2006 | 16169859 |
| serological investigations for the cause of diarrhoea among patients and personnel in the minna and abeokuta hospitals/nigeria. | 188 blood samples were investigated for antibodies against bacteria causing diarrhoea in two hospitals in minna and abeokuta in nigeria. antibodies were found against entamoeba histolytica, yersinia enterocolitica, campylobacter jejuni, salmonella typhi, salmonella paratyphi c, shigella dysenteriae, shigella sonnei, shigella boydii, shigella flexneri and rotavirus. | 1987 | 3443752 |