"Water is an essential resource and its purity should not be negotiated when it comes to human consumption. This study investigated the antibacterial activity of Garcinia kola Hunteria umbellata seed epicarp on some bacterial isolates from sachet water. Duplicate samples ten brands water were purchased sales outlets around Ugbowo community, Benin City. Plate count techniques, minimum inhibitory...

Ten dairy farms supplying raw milk to the industry were investigated determine compliance with safety criteria (plate count at 30 °C and somatic cell count) of Regulation (EC) 853/2004. The relationship such lipid protein percentages was also evaluated. results demonstrated a great variability due different management systems each farm, regard milking hygiene, health status animals, prevention ...

The effect of growth medium and incubation time were investigated by determining the number of colonies that were visible on triplicate plates of three different media on daily intervals. The viable counts were significantly different between the three different media even after the first day and this continued for seven days. Colony counts on the three media reached their maximum on the third ...

Public toilet facilities pose serious health threats to those accessing it, as they may be sources of infection the users. Understanding bacterial types and their virulence features such biofilm production resistance antibiotics will aid in advancing control measures. This study was therefore conducted determine prevalence antibiogram forming species associated with seats University dormitories...

The physiochemical and bacteria diversity of Otamiri River was analyzed using standard microbiological methods. A total seventy two (72) water twenty four (24) sediment samples were collected. routine plate count revealed that the number heterotrophic present ranged from 1.00E+06 Cfu/ml to 9.70E+06 Cfu/ml, fecal coliform 2.00E+05 9.00E+06 Salmonella/Shigella 3.50E+05 1.52E+07 Staphylococcus 1.7...