Publications by authors named "Mitsan Olley"
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- - In Okada, Edo State, Nigeria, a study was conducted on 100 healthy students to find out the prevalence of nasal colonization by a common bacterial pathogen, revealing that 23% were carriers and 6% were methicillin-resistant (MRSA) strains.
- - The study involved testing isolates for their susceptibility to 22 different antibiotics, uncovering high levels of resistance, particularly among MRSA strains to multiple classes of antimicrobials including beta-lactams and fluoroquinolones.
- - The presence of resistant bacterial clones in a university setting highlights a significant public health concern, as it suggests the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria within Nigerian communities.
The increasing emergence of multidrug-resistant infection causing microorganisms has become a significant burden globally. Despite the efforts of pharmaceuticals in producing relatively new antimicrobial drugs, they have resulted in a high rate of mortality, disability and diseases across the world especially in developing countries. Supporting this claim was the report of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who estimated that over 2 million illnesses and 23,000 deaths per year are attributable to antibiotic resistant pathogens in the United States.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Enterobacteriaceae are ubiquitously present in nature and can be found in the intestinal tract of humans and animals as commensal flora. Multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae are increasingly reported and are a threat to public health implicating a need for accurate identification of the isolates to species level. In developing countries, identification of bacteria basically depends on conventional methods: culture and phenotypic methods that hamper the accurate identification of bacteria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence is high among rural dwellers and pregnant women.
Aims: This study aims to determine the prevalence of HIV and anemia among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in rural community of Okada, Edo State, Nigeria.
Patients And Methods: Anticoagulated blood and sera samples were obtained from 480 women consisting of 292 pregnant and 188 non-pregnant women.
Aim: To determine the prevalence of urinary tract infection (UTI) in Okada, a rural community in Nigeria, and the effect of age and gender on its prevalence as well as the etiologic agents and the susceptibility profile of the bacterial agents.
Patients And Method: Clean-catch midstream urine was collected from 514 patients (49 males and 465 females). The urine samples were processed and microbial isolates identified.