Antibacterial susceptibility of staphylococcus aureus, salmonella typhi, bacillus subtilis and escherichia coli to snail slime.

Background: The emanation of multi-drugs resistant microorganisms and the challenges faced in combating multi-drug resistant infections is a public health issue and this has increased the search for effective antibiotics from natural sources.

Objectives: This work aims to determine the susceptibility of some pathogenic bacterial species to snail slime.

Methods: The antibacterial activity of aqueous and ethanolic snail slime extracts were investigated against and using the agar well diffusion method.

Prevalence of Plasmodia and hepatitis B virus co-infection in blood donors at Bishop Murray Medical Centre, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria.

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of co-infection of hepatitis B and Plasmodia among potential blood donors in Benue State, and Nigeria at large and offer suggestions and containment methods.

Methods: Three hundred and thirty seven (337) potential blood donors, comprising 229(67.95%) Males and 108(32.