| human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection in patients attending a sexually transmitted diseases clinic in borno state of nigeria. | results of a study to determine if patients attending sexually transmitted diseases (std) clinics are at high risk to human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection are presented. the 206 patients who attended the std clinic at the maiduguri general hospital consisted of 200 males and 6 females, most of whom were aged between 20 and 29 years and were single. only one of the 206 serum samples (0.49%) was confirmed seropositive for hiv-1 antibodies. however, cultures from 143 of 174 swabs taken from ... | 1990 | 2124396 |
| nasopharyngeal, vaginal and anal carriage of neisseria meningitidis in nigeria. | the incidence of carriers of neisseria meningitidis was investigated in borno state, an epidemic area for cerebrospinal meningitis and in anambra state a non-epidemic area for this disease in nigeria. the nasopharyngeal carriage rate in maiduguri in borno state was 18 per cent as compared with 11.8 per cent and 9.6 per cent in nsukka and enugu respectively in anambra state. n. meningitidis was also isolated from anus and vagina in one and three females respectively. majority of the isolates (71. ... | 1989 | 2509546 |
| control of epidemic meningococcal meningitis by mass vaccination. i. further epidemiological evaluation of groups a and c vaccines in northern nigeria. | mass vaccination campaigns were mounted by several state governments in the northern nigerian sector of the african meningitis belt. bivalent groups a and c polysaccharide vaccines were used. the results of these campaigns in four of the states which are adjacent to each other are presented and assessed. a total of 7535350 persons in the four states, bauchi, borno, gongola and plateau, were given the vaccine over a period of 4 years (1978-1981). there was a decline in the overall number of cases ... | 1984 | 6438244 |
| pattern and antibiotic susceptibility of bacteria in pyogenic meningitis in a children's emergency room population in maiduguri, nigeria, 1988-1992. | from january 1988 to november 1992, 107 (3.5%) of 3074 postneonatal children admitted to the children's emergency room, university of maiduguri teaching hospital, nigeria, had sporadic pyogenic meningitis; 66 (61.7%) were aged < or = 12 months. streptococcus pneumoniae, neisseria meningitidis and haemophilus influenzae together were responsible for 77.3% (58) of 75 culture-proven cases, 13.4% (10) had enterobacteriaceae, 5.3% (4) had staphylococcus aureus and 4% (3) untyped alpha-haemolytic stre ... | 1994 | 7949801 |