The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of the ithmid kohl/zinc-oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs), ithmid kohl/Aloe vera, and ZnONPs/Aloe vera in the treatment of bacterial endophthalmitis. The endophthalmitis model was prepared by contaminating both eyes of 24 healthy adult male albino rabbits with a clinical isolate of Klebsiella pneumoniae. The animals were randomly divided into eight groups (A-H) according to the treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To assess the seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2 in patients infected with HIV in Nigeria.
Design: Cross-sectional design from January to June 2019.
Setting: Federal Teaching Hospital, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.
Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the association of the intimin (eae) and pagC genes with biofilm formation and multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica collected from calves with diarrhea.
Results: Fecal samples (n: 150) were collected from calves with diarrhea. Of 150 fecal samples, 122 (81.
This study was designed to investigate the effect of administrating a selective aromatase inhibitor, letrozole, on the parameters of the rat's sperm and testicular histomorphology. A total of 40 male Wistar rats with an age of about 5 months old and an average weight of 190±10 g were divided randomly into 4 groups (n=10 each) and treated for 6 weeks. The first group (C) was given normal saline only as a control group.
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