Publications by authors named "B Audu"
Article Synopsis
- - The COVID-19 pandemic has led to 7.1 million deaths globally, with Nigeria reporting its first case on February 27, 2020, resulting in 267,173 infections and 3,155 deaths by July 2024.
- - Initially, Nigeria had limited public health lab capabilities for COVID-19 diagnosis, but the National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI) leveraged its resources and expertise to process over 33,000 samples across five states within six months.
- - Collaborative projects were established among NVRI, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, and other sectors, focusing on One Health grants to improve surveillance for coronaviruses and enhance pandemic preparedness through inter-sectoral cooperation.
Introduction: Cancers are a major cause of childhood mortality worldwide especially in LMICs where underdiagnoses and lack of quality cancer data hampers effective cancer control efforts. This study aimed to document and describe the patterns and characteristics of childhood cancers in the North East geopolitical zone of Nigeria.
Methods: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study that collected cancer data from 4 out of the 6 states in the North East of Nigeria.
Introduction: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is plagued by myriads of diseases, mostly infectious; but cancer disease burden is rising among non-communicable diseases. Nigeria has a high burden of cancer, however its remote underserved culturally-conserved populations have been understudied, a gap this study sought to fill.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional multi-institutional descriptive study of histologically diagnosed cancers over a four-year period (January 2019-December 2022) archived in the Departments of Pathology and Cancer Registries of six tertiary hospitals in the northeast of Nigeria.
Infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria are a growing global concern. Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC) species are particularly adept at developing antibiotic resistance. Phage therapy is proposed as an alternative treatment for pathogens that no longer respond to antibiotics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Antimicrobial resistance is increasingly becoming a global health concern. This study aimed to investigate and report MDR prevalence, resistance, and virulence genes from poultry in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
Methods: The samples were analyzed using microbiological standard methods and polymerase chain reactions (PCRs).