Retrospective Analysis of the Serovars and Antibiogram of Isolates of the 2017 Ilorin Cholera Outbreak, Nigeria.

In this retrospective study, we determined the incidence, serovars, and antibiogram of isolated from 102 clinical stool samples collected from rice water diarrheic patients during an outbreak (May - July 2017) in Ilorin metropolis, Nigeria. The culture positive rate of the isolates was 41.2%, with 41 and 1 isolates from O1 (Inaba) and non-O1/O139 serogroups, respectively.

A Distributed Stream Processing Middleware Framework for Real-Time Analysis of Heterogeneous Data on Big Data Platform: Case of Environmental Monitoring.

In recent years, the application and wide adoption of Internet of Things (IoT)-based technologies have increased the proliferation of monitoring systems, which has consequently exponentially increased the amounts of heterogeneous data generated. Processing and analysing the massive amount of data produced is cumbersome and gradually moving from classical 'batch' processing-extract, transform, load (ETL) technique to real-time processing. For instance, in environmental monitoring and management domain, time-series data and historical dataset are crucial for prediction models.

Differential contribution of interleukin-10 promoter variants in malaria and schistosomiasis mono- and co-infections among Nigerian children.

Objective: Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is an anti-inflammatory cytokine produced by Th1 cells and macrophages. The rationale of this study was to examine and validate possible contributions of IL-10 promoter polymorphisms in sub-Saharan Africa in children infected with either Plasmodium falciparum or Schistosoma haematobium and in children co-infected with both parasites.

Materials And Methods: A total of 309 Nigerian children aged 4-15 years were recruited.

Co-endemicity of Plasmodium falciparum and Intestinal Helminths Infection in School Age Children in Rural Communities of Kwara State Nigeria.

Background: Malaria and intestinal helminths co-infection are major public health problems particularly among school age children in Nigeria. However the magnitude and possible interactions of these infections remain poorly understood. This study determined the prevalence, impact and possible interaction of Plasmodium falciparum and intestinal helminths co-infection among school children in rural communities of Kwara State, Nigeria.

Malaria Parasitaemia among Blood Donors in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Background: The prevalence of malaria parasitaemia among blood donors in Ilorin has not been documented. In this study, we determined the prevalence of malaria parasitaemia among blood donors in Ilorin, as well as, the sociodemographic and other factors associated with it.

Method: This was a hospital-based cross sectional study involving 308 consenting blood donors.

Prevalence, intensity and complications of Microsporidium spores amongst HIV-positive hospital patients in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Background: Microsporidiasis, which is of great concern for immunocompromised patients, is poorly studied in developing countries.

Objectives: A study was carried out amongst HIV-positive hospital patients and HIV-negative hospital controls in Ilorin, Nigeria, between January 2009 and July 2010 to determine the prevalence and intensity of spores and the complications associated with their presence.

Method: Stool samples from 750 HIV-positive patients and 375 HIV-negative patients were studied using the Chromotrope-2R staining technique.

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: awareness, knowledge and disposition to screening among healthcare workers in critical care units of a Nigerian hospital.

Background: Awareness level about methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is high in the western world but the status in developing countries is not well defined.

Objective: To assess MRSA awareness level, knowledge and disposition to screening among critical healthcare givers (HCGs) in Nigeria.

Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was used to assess the level of awareness and knowledge of HCGs in critical care units of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria on MRSA and their willingness to submit to screening.

Health-related quality of life and its determinants in HIV patients with post herpetic neuralgia.

Background: Postherpetic neuralgia is a neuralgia caused by the varicella zoster virus. Its natural history involves slow resolution of the pain syndrome. A subgroup of patients may develop severe, long-lasting pain that does not respond to medical therapy.

Non-gonococcal bacterial agents of conjunctivitis and their antibiotic susceptibility patterns in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Periodic bacteriological surveillance of purulent ocular discharge is a necessity. To determine the prevalent bacterial agents of purulent conjunctivitis and their antibiotic susceptibility patterns at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin, Nigeria. All bacterial isolates obtained during routine processing of conjunctival swab specimens were studied at the Department of Microbiology UITH between January and December 2004.

Endometrial tuberculosis in the Nigerian middle belt: an eight-year review.

Endometrial tuberculosis (TB) is a known cause of infertility in women which, because of the global increase in the spread of TB, should always be considered when investigating the cause of infertility. We undertook this review in order to determine its incidence among infertile women in the Nigerian middle belt. This is a retrospective study of all histopathological slides of infertile women seen at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria, between 1997 and 2004 who were evaluated for infertility by endometrial biopsy.

Campylobacter enteritis in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Background: Campylobacterje junilcoli is one of the most commonly identified bacterial causes of acute gastroenteritis worldwide. In Nigeria, it has been reported in the northern part of the country, extensive work has also been done in the south-west leaving behind the middle-belt of the country.

Objective: To determine the role of Campylobacter jejunilcoli as an agent of diarrhoea in the middle-belt of Nigeria.

Bacterial isolates of blood cultures in patients with suspected septicaemia in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Periodic bacteriologic surveillance of blood cultures is a necessity. To determine currently prevalent bacterial pathogens of blood cultures in patients with suspected septicaemia in Ilorin. Nigeria.

Antibiotic disc sensitivity pattern of pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates obtained from clinical specimens in Ilorin, Nigeria.

The choice of antibiotics used for first line treatment of infectious disease depends largely on previously known antibiogram within a specified locality among other factors. Antibiotic sensitivity pattern of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates obtain from clinical specimen in Ilorin, Nigeria was studied over a 12 month period, starting from January 2003. A total of 102 isolates were recovered from various clinical specimens and their antibiotic sensitivity patterns were determined by disc diffusion method on antibiotic sensitivity agar (ASA).

Bacterial pneumonia in the AIDS patients.

Objective: To determine the incidence, microbiological pattern and prognostic factor of bacterial pneumonia in AIDS patients.

Study Design: Prospective study of AIDS patients from July 2001 to Dec 2002.

Methodology: Adults AIDS patients on HAART drugs that develop acute fever, cough with bronchial breathing or lung crepitations had diagnostic evaluation that included chest x-ray, paired sputum microscopy, culture and sensitivity, paired blood culture and haematological profiles including CD4' cell count.