Publications by authors named "K A Akanbi"
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- * The World Health Organization advises that at least 80% of new births should be vaccinated against rubella to minimize CRS cases, but previous research has primarily looked at national data, missing local variations.
- * In Nigeria, researchers found significant differences in rubella transmission levels between states, suggesting that low-risk areas can achieve safe vaccination with coverage below 80%, while high-risk areas need extra campaign support to improve vaccination rates effectively.
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- - Edo State experienced an outbreak of yellow fever from September to November 2018, prompting the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to deploy a Rapid Response Team for investigation and management of the situation.
- - The investigation identified 209 suspected cases, with 67 confirmed cases, a case fatality rate of 22.4%, and highlighted low vaccination coverage among the population, particularly in children.
- - Findings indicated a significant risk of yellow fever transmission due to the presence of Aedes mosquitoes, leading to the implementation of a reactive mass vaccination campaign to control the outbreak.
Introduction: tuberculosis (TB) is the commonest opportunistic infection and cause of death in patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in developing countries. World Health Organization (WHO) recommends 85% treatment success rate for all TB cases as an indicator of TB control. The study aimed at determining TB treatment success rate among TB-HIV co-infected patients and identifying predictors of successful treatment among patients in TB treatment sites in Abeokuta, Nigeria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study was designed to investigate the effect of nicotine on serum progesterone and estradiol levels as possible cause of abortion during first trimester of gestation in female Wistar rats.
Methods: Fourteen female rats with regular estrous cycles in the same phase of cycle were divided into two groups (Control and Nicotine-treated) with each group receiving 1ml of distilled water and 1mg/kg of nicotine respectively for the first seven days of pregnancy (GD1-7). The animals were sacrificed on the 8th day and blood samples were collected for hormonal analyses.
Voltage-sensitive Ca(2+) channels (VSCCs) mediate Ca(2+) permeability in osteoblasts. Association between VSCC alpha(1)- and beta-subunits targets channel complexes to the plasma membrane and modulates function. In mechanosensitive tissues, a 700-kDa ahnak protein anchors VSCCs to the actin cytoskeleton via the beta(2)-subunit of the L-type Ca(v)1.
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