Traditional use of herbal medicines implies substantial historical use, and this is certainly true for many products that are available as ‘traditional medicines. The experimental study was conducted between February May, 2016 at University Gondar on antibacterial effect leaf extract Pterolobium stellatum. purpose the present to test antimicrobial P. stellatum extracted leaves against som...

BACKGROUND The air inhaled by people is abundantly populated with microorganisms which also are called bioaerosols. Bioaerosols is a colloidal suspension, formed by liquid droplets and particles of solid matter in the air, whose components contain or have attached to them viruses, fungal spores and conidia, bacterial endospores, plant pollen and fragments of plant tissues. They account for 5-34...

OBJECTIVES To assess physicians' and nurses' satisfaction with the service provided by the laboratory at Gondar University Hospital. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study involving 196 nurses and physicians. RESULTS Overall level of satisfaction was 51.1% for nurses and 51.5% for physicians. Lack of consistency in the quality of laboratory work, absence of a timely report of critical...

ObjectivesThis study described the population structure of M. tuberculosis complex (MTBc) strains among patients with pulmonary or lymph node (TB) in Northwest Ethiopia and tested performance culture isolation MPT64-based speciation for Lineage 7 (L7).MethodsPatients were recruited between April 2017 June 2019 North Gondar, Ethiopia. The MPT64 assay was used to confirm MTBc, spoligotyping chara...