Survey of urinary schistosomiasis and trichomoniasis was conducted among 830 inhabitants of Ikao village, in Owan local government area of Edo State, Nigeria Between October, 1999 and February, 2000. Of these, 178 (21.4%) excreted Schistosoma haematobium ova in their urine. School children were more infected than the farmers and petty traders. Males were more infected than the female counterpar...

The goal of this study was to explore the health seeking behavior of the elderly in Edo Central Nigeria. It focused on the most common health related problems of the elderly;revealedwhere the elderly goes to seek medical care when sick; and those financially responsible for his/her medical needs. Five hundred and forty elderly persons were selected by systematic random sampling and a total of 5...

The emergence and spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are a global health problem that is of great concern to public health services (1, 2). The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of CRE in three Nigerian hospitals and to characterize the resistance mechanisms of such isolates. A total of 218 consecutive clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae based on incl...

The Zeldovich hypothesis is revised and the meaning of quasi energy spectra is discussed. The observation of Floquet resonance for microobjects in quickly oscillating external fields might bring a new information about the time scale of hypothetical quantum jumps. PACS number(s): 42.50.Lc, 33.55.Be, 33.80.Ps, 42.62.-b. Preprint CINVESTAV: CIEA-FIS/97-06 ∗Depto. de Matemáticas, ITESM, Campus Est...

WP1. Some important features concerning our evaluation of DQPA occurrences in sequence database (i.e. SPECIES_VALENCE approach). SP_VAL is based on four important features of our evaluation. First of all, the consistent threshold of the selected DQPA represents an important parameter of specificity together with overall BLAST evaluation of DQPA similarities. Secondly, SP_VAL as propensity-relat...

The ’classical interpretation’ of the wave function ψ(x) reveals an interesting operational aspect of the Helmholtz spectra. It is shown that the traditional Sturm-Liouville problem contains the simplest key to predict the squeezing effect for charged particle states. PACS number(s): 02.70.Hm, 41.75.-i, 03.65.Ge Preprint CINVESTAV: CIEA-FIS/97-07 ∗Depto. de Matemáticas, ITESM, Campus Estado de ...

Malaria parasitemia was assessed in 37 known sickle cell anemia patients attending the routine hematological clinic of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin-City, Edo State. Parasitemia was determined using the quantitative buffy coat analysis. The prevalence of malaria parasitemia among the population studied was 86.5%. There was no significant difference in the prevalence of parasi...