| etiologic spectrum and pattern of antimicrobial drug susceptibility in bacterial meningitis in sokoto, nigeria. | etiologic agents of meningitis were prospectively investigated among patients admitted to usman danfodio university teaching hospital, sokoto. of 1097 cerebrospinal fluid (csf) samples submitted to the microbiology laboratory from various wards of the hospital, 289 (26%) were microscopically, culturally and/or serologically proven to be bacterial meningitis. the etiologic spectrum was as follows: neisseria meningitidis (61%), streptococcus pneumoniae (18%), haemophilus influenzae (10%), staphylo ... | 2000 | 10976835 |
| epidemiology of male urethritis in nigeria. | one thousand and seventy-two symptomatic male cases of urethritis were investigated. of these, 643 (60%) had gonococcal aetiology; 579 (54%) of all cases were in the 21-30-year age group while only 21 (2%) were above 50 years and 654 patients were married, 418 unmarried. traders, civil servants and students accounted for 33.8, 29.5 and 26.7% of cases respectively. sokoto state of nigeria was less affected with the disease than other areas. three hundred and eighty-six patients gave a history of ... | 1990 | 2109097 |