OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of enterotoxigenic strains of staphylococci in children aged five years and below suffering from sporadic diarrhoea and their antibiotic susceptibility pattern. DESIGN Collection of stool samples from children with sporadic diarrhoea and laboratory based microbiological analysis. SETTING Microbiology Research Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Microb...

BACKGROUND Recording the interaction between a patient and the dentist is of primary importance in dental practice. The completeness of recordings of undergraduate students, often inadequate, has been found to subsequently impact on the quality of dental care offered by professionals. Once identified, correcting the inadequacies has also been shown to improve the quality of dental practice. O...

Multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is of great public health importance worldwide. This three month laboratory- based study (1st September-30th November, 2011) was carried out at the TB laboratories of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria to determine the magnitude of MDR-TB using molecular based GenoType MTBDRplus 96 assay. Two sputum samples were collected fro...

Background. A multidimensional, brief, and flexible stroke-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measure is still needed. The aim was to develop a shortened version of the HRQOLISP-102, a multiculturally generated measure with excellent psychometric properties. Methods. Participants included 100 (Ibadan, Nigeria) and 103 (Berlin, Germany) stroke patients compared to 100 (Ibadan) and 5...

This study was conducted with the central aim of ascertaining the socioeconomic impacts of kerosene (paraffin) pricing on alternative sources of energy in Ibadan, a city in South West Nigeria. Data were collected through a survey of residential properties in Ibadan metropolis. Both descriptive statistics and multinomial logistic regression model were used for the empirical analysis. The models ...

A box-type solar heater was designed, constructed, and used to determine the effect of solar heating on quality of domestic roof-harvested rainwater (DRHRW). During testing, naturally contaminated DRHRW was harvested in Ibadan, Nigeria, and released into the system at 93.96 Lh(-1) (2.61 × 10(-5) m(3) s(-1)) in a continuous flow process. Water temperatures at inlet, within the heating chamber, a...

BACKGROUND Psychopathology among adolescents has become a global concern in the last decade. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify the predictors of psychopathology among adolescents in Ibadan region using a multi-theoretical approach. METHODS Eight hundred and eighty-nine (889) male and female adolescents drawn from different parts of Ibadan region of the South-West Nigeria, part...

Background Biopsies are often essential for definitive diagnosis of oro-facial lesions and are a part of oral diagnostic procedures carried out in histopathology laboratories. At present, there is paucity of literature on the audit of oral histopathology services in Nigeria. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of biopsied oral lesions in a Nigerian tertiary institution...

This study aimed at detecting and determining the prevalence of genital pathogens among attendees of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) clinic of a tertiary care hospital in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria. One hundred consecutive patients (43 males and 57 females) who attended the STI clinic of a tertiary care hospital at Ibadan, with one or more of the complaints as enunciated by WHO in its ...

Quality of Life encompasses an individual's well-being and health, social participation and satisfaction with functional daily living. Disabilities such as deafness can impact on the quality of life with spatial variance to the environment. Deafness causes communicative problems with significant consequences in cognitive, social, and emotional well-being of affected individuals. However, inform...