Publications by authors named "N O Umoh"
Wound infection poses a significant global health threat, as it is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among surgical patients and individuals with burn injuries, resulting in substantial healthcare burdens and devastating outcomes worldwide. , , and have frequently been implicated as major pathogens causing wound infections. This has eventually and consistently given rise to antimicrobial resistance divulging a need to mitigate infectious outbreaks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Coronavirus-19 transmitted through physical contact, droplets, and fomites caused severe respiratory disease resulting in high mortality worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic caused innumerable hardships, panic, and restrictions of movement which negatively affected the assessment of healthcare services like breast cancer diagnosis in many countries. The results from the histopathological diagnosis of breast tumours have been routinely employed for the treatment and management of these diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTraumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease related dementias (AD/ADRD) and otherwise classified post-traumatic neurodegeneration (PTND). Targeted research is needed to elucidate the circumstances and mechanisms through which TBI contributes to the initiation, development, and progression of AD/ADRD pathologies including multiple etiology dementia (MED). The National Institutes of Health hosts triennial ADRD summits to inform a national research agenda, and TBI was included for a second time in 2022.
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- Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a complex condition with varying causes and effects, making it difficult for researchers to achieve consistent results in both pre-clinical and clinical settings.
- To tackle this issue, TBI research groups created 913 common data elements (CDEs) that standardize experimental parameters, animal characteristics, and injury models, aimed at improving data consistency and analysis across studies.
- An analysis of combined legacy datasets revealed significant missing data issues, with around 35% missing values in the Morris water maze and 33% in the Rotarod experiments, highlighting the challenges yet to be overcome in harmonizing research efforts.
Background: Urinary schistosomiasis is a serious public health challenge in some communities of Ebonyi State, south-east Nigeria, partly resulting from a lack of adequate epidemiological data for the institution of effective control strategies.
Objective: This study evaluated the prevalence and risk factors of urinary schistosomiasis in rural communities of Ebonyi State, south-east Nigeria.
Methods: A total of 300 students, comprising 185 boys and 115 girls, were randomly selected for the study between July and December 2016.