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Typhoid fever among patients with malaria attending Kumi Hospital Ongino in Kumi District
(Makerere University, 2022-02)
Malaria and typhoid fever are among the most common endemic diseases in the tropics and developing countries. The diseases present with similar signs and symptoms especially during the early stages of typhoid. Because of ...
Antimicrobial resistance : a case study on archived staphylococcus aureus isolates at the Jinja Referral Hospital
(Makerere University, 2019-09)
Bacterial infections are leading global cause of mortality and morbidity in Uganda. The injudicious use of conventional antibiotics in treatment of these infections has led to increased antimicrobial resistance. Staphylococcus ...
Performance of a dithionate solubility-based diagnostic test kit for sickle cell disease at Central Public Health Laboratories in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019-08)
Sickle cell disease refers to a group of red blood cell disorders in people with an abnormal hemoglobin. This is created by a single nucleotide substitution at the sixth codon in the gene for production of hemoglobin. ...
Evaluation of wound healing activity of methanolic extract of Cinnamonum verum in wistar albino rats
(Makerere University, 2022-03-24)
Cinnamon verum is one of the medicinal plants used traditionally for the management of wounds. Wounds are a health problem with devastating consequences for patients and inflict a great cost to both societies and health ...
Assessment of the microbiological quality of fresh tilapia fish sold at three markets in Kampala City, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-03)
A microbiological analysis of tilapia for determination of Total Viable Count (TVC), Pseudomonas load and coliform count, was carried out on samples obtained from three different markets in Kampala City, Uganda. The study ...
Assessing the effect of delay in transit and processing on pathogen recovery from blood cultures in the bd bactectm fx system at Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala
(Makerere University, 2022-03)
Blood culturing is still considered as the gold standard done by microbiology laboratories with aim of detecting microbial pathogens related to blood stream infections, in turn guide antibiotic therapy. The Clinical and ...
The prevalence of selected gastro-intestinal protozoan parasites among the patients attending the outpatient department of Lira regional referral hospital
(Makerere University, 2020-12)
Intestinal protozoan infections are among the common life-threatening parasitic disease affecting 25% of the world population. In Uganda, there is no continuous surveillance system for intestinal protozoan infections hence ...
Prevalence of Human Metapneumovirus among patients presenting with influenza-like symptoms from selected hospitals in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-03)
Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is an RNA virus which has been associated with upper and lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) in children and adults. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of HMPV ...
Antibacterial activity of zingiber officinale extract on common bacterial pathogens causing upper respiratory tract infections
(Makerere university, 2021-01)
The ginger rhizome (Zingiber officinale) is known to be rich in secondary metabolites such as phenolic compounds, volatile sesquiterpenes and monoterpenoids. These specific phytochemicals and essential oils are responsible ...
The phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV2 across the different continents (Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Africa) over one year period
(Makerere University, 2022-01)
A previously unknown human coronavirus (hCoV-19) was first detected in late 2019 in patients in the City of Wuhan, who suffered from respiratory illnesses including atypical pneumonia, an illness that became known as ...