Overtreatment of malaria in the Nigerian healthcare setting: prescription practice, rationale and consequences.

Nigeria is one of the countries in the world with the highest burden of malaria, accounting for a quarter of all cases in Africa. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, microscopic examination remains the gold standard for laboratory confirmation of malaria. However, the policy and practice of presumptive treatment of malaria for all febrile illnesses has been widely advocated in sub-Saharan Africa.

Length of Hospital Stay of COVID-19 Patients managed at the Lagos State Isolation Centres during the First Wave of the Pandemic.

Background: Lagos State has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria. We assessed the factors predicting the length of hospital stay of COVID-19 patients admitted in 15 isolation centres across the state.

Methods: We reviewed the electronic medical records of all COVID-19 patients admitted and discharged between February 27, 2020, and September 30, 2020.

Clinical presentation of COVID-19-positive and -negative patients in Lagos Nigeria: A comparative study.

Background: A lot has been documented about the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We compared the clinical features of real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) confirmed COVID-19 positive and negative patients admitted in Lagos State.

Methods: Medical records of all patients admitted in 15 isolation centres across Lagos state between 27 February 2020 and 30 September 2020, were abstracted and reviewed.

Squaring small and medium businesses and branding post Covid-19 in Nigeria: Tripartite imperatives for performance.

Since the Corona virus is expected to create a paradigm shift of so called new normal, contemplation of imperatives needed to adapt to the post Covid-19 world is in order. In the case of Nigeria, the already troubled small and medium business (SME) sector and branding of small businesses require attention. Departing from the strict marketing perspective it is typically understood, branding is construed as a function of the overall state of a society in this article.

Aromatic donor-acceptor interaction promoted catalyst assemblies for hydrolytic kinetic resolution of epichlorohydrin.

Three generations of Co(iii)-salen complexes containing electron-deficient aromatic moieties (acceptors) have been synthesized. When electron-rich aromatic compounds (donors) were introduced, these complexes were designed to form catalyst assemblies through aromatic donor-acceptor interaction. For all three generations of complexes, the addition of a proper donor led to higher catalytic efficiency in the hydrolytic kinetic resolution (HKR) of epichlorohydrin.