- Volume 13, Number 2 (2025)
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INDOOR AIR MICROBIAL PROFILES IN TEACHING SPACES AT RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY
Ifeanyi Emmanuel Nwachukwu
The presence of bacteria in the indoor air poses a serious problem from the health and environmental point of view. Precise determination of various groups of indoor microbes is necessary in estimating the health hazard and to create standards for indoor air quality control. This is especially important in such densely populated facilities like educational institutions. The indoor air of different classrooms in Rivers state university was investigated using the Koch sedimentation method with a view of determining the air quality and to determine the susceptibility of bacterial isolates to different antibiotics. The Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method was used in...
OBESITY TREATMENT THROUGH THE LENS OF COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Can Yılmaz Mustafa
Obesity is characterized with increased body fat compared to lean body mass and is a chronic disease caused by excess energy from the energy consumed by the body's nutrients. Obesity is a growing health problem of today's world. The prevalence of obesity has almost doubled between 1980 and 2008 in worldwide research, and according to this finding; almost more than half a billion adults were obese in the worldwide. The main factor that causes obesity is that the amount of energy entering the body is more than the amount of energy consumed. Much of this extra energy comes from increased...
THE IMPACT OF URINARY SCHISTOSOMIASIS ON JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN AGASSA
Grace Enemona Adejoh
Prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis among 136 students of junior secondary school Agassa in Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State was assessed. In total 18 students was infected representing 13.2% prevalence. Highest prevalence (21.5%) was recorded among J.S.S. 1 boys and the least (6.3%) was recorded among J.S.S. 3 girls. Generally prevalence of haematobium infection was higher (17.1%) in males compared to 7.4% in females. Prevalence by age showed that the highest (19.6%) was recorded in age group 10 – 12 years and the least (4.7%) in age group 16 – 18 years. There is need for students and the...