ABSTRACT Lithofacies and petrophysical analysis formed the basis for the diagenetic evaluation of the reservoir units in well XYZ 006, XYZ field, Onshore, Niger Delta, Nigeria. Detailed examination of cores taken from the Lithologic section in XYZ-006 well, led to the recognition of several distinctive component facies comprising of fourteen (14) facies. These was subjected to facies analysis using the Markov Chain statistical technique. The modal analysis of the studied core samples exhibit...
ABSTRACT Background: Schistosomes are parasitic worms that dwell in the blood vessels and belong to the genus Schistosoma. Schistosoma haematobium, one of the species of Schistosoma cause urogenital schistosomiasis (urinary schistosomiasis). The knowledge of urogenital schistosomiasis has improved over the years; however, there are still endemic areas with reported cases in Africa including Ghana. The disease may present as mild or severe with accompanying morbidity and mortality. Genetic var...
Abstract The Pra River Basin has been engulfed by certain anthropogenic activities particularly illegal small scale mining (popularly called galamsey) and serious concerns have been raised by stakeholders within the basin of the level of pollution due to the release of chemicals and sediments into the water bodies. Fluvial sediment yield data is an essential requirement for informed decision making on water resources development and management. However, information on the sediment load of mos...
ABSTRACT There is an increasing demand for variety in food products, mankind rely on very limited number of crops to meet the needs of staple diets on a very limited number of major non-food crops to meet the associated needs, the functionality of wheat-morama bean composite flour for food applications was thus investigated. Morama bean (Tylosema esculentum) was shelled and milled into flour. Part of the morama bean flour was defatted using n-hexane. Wheat flour (both hard and soft) was subst...
ABSTRACT Peanut soup is very popular in Ghana and the entire West Africa region. It is largely prepared and consumed both at the domestic and commercial scales. Due to the long and tedious nature of preparing the soup, there was the need to develop a shelf stable condensed canned peanut soupbase which could be reconstituted to create convenience in peanut soup preparation. Previous work/studies done established a process flow chart for the canned peanut soup-base through selection of suitable...
Abstract This \ork. is aimed at developing solid base catalysts from locally sourced materials and applying them to an environmentally beneficial reactive distillation process for transesterification of vegetable oils with methanol into biodiesel. Solid base catalysts include calcium oxides (prepared from the calcinations of poultry eggshell, limestone, chalk clay and marble stone). By investigating these processed solid base catalysts samples catalytic behaviors in the transesterificat...
ABSTRACT Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is known to improve treatment in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-infected patients but the emergence of drug resistance is an obstacle in the effective management of HIV infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Plasma viral load monitoring is the gold standard used in high-income countries for monitoring treatment but it is not available in many resource-limited settings. Although limited viral load testing is now avail...
ABSTRACT The search for antimalarial compounds was necessitated by Plasmodium falciparum resistance to most antimalarial drugs. In endemic countries where malaria is prevalent, medicinal plants are often used to treat malaria. In this study, the in vitro antimalarial activities of crude aqueous and ethanolic extracts of Anacardium occidentale and Cymbopogon citratus, were evaluated against P. falciparum. Fourteen fresh blood samples obtained from infected children and adults aged 15 to 25 ye...
ABSTRACT This study compares some ecological aspects (territory size, group size, clutch size and food supply rate) of three communally breeding bird species, namely Yellow-billed Shrike (Corvinella corvina), Green Wood-hoopoe (Phoeniculus purpureus) and Brown Babbler (Turdoides plebejus), on the Legon campus of the University of Ghana. This was in response to the limited literature on communal breeding bird species despite their widespread distribution in Africa. The methodology involved dir...
ABSTRACT Water of good quality is indispensable to human survival on earth. The provision of potable water to both the rural and the urban populations is necessary to prevent health hazards. The aim of this research was to assess water quality with respect to physicochemical parameters and trace metals levels in the water, the sediment and the fish species from the Kpong Reservoir on the Lower Volta River. The water, the sediment and the fish samples were collected monthly for six (6) months ...
Abstract This study is aimed at determining the status, prevalence and significance of female urogenital schistosomiasis (FUGS) in schistosomiasis endemic population at risk of HIV transmission in Jos, Plateau State. Epidemiological circumstances that predisposed individuals to urogenital schistosomiasis and HIV in Jos Plateau State, was investigated. FUGS was determined from parasitological and immunological techniques. Circulating cathodic (worm) antigen (CCA) was used as an additional imm...
ABSTRACT Schistosomiasis remains endemic in Ghana, with Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium being the two dominant species of the schistosome parasites. In some parts of Africa, previous works indicated the occurrence of pairings between these two species, resulting in the production of non-viable eggs (parthenogenesis). In Ghana, although both species occur in sympatry, it is yet to be shown whether this can lead to hetero-specific pairing within the definitive host leading to consequent ...
ABSTRACT Infection with hepatitis B virus constitutes a major public health problem globally. The lack of proofreading of the reverse transcriptase results in considerable mutations culminating into genotypes, sub-genotypes and variants. HBV quasispecies in an infected host has been linked to disease progression and therapeutic outcome. Limited data exist on the quasispecies diversity in other clinically relevant regions particularly the precore/core ORF which also is a determinant factor in ...
ABSTRACT The isolation and characterization of starch from Parkia biglobosa Oacq.)Benth. (African locust bean), was investigated. The starch was extracted by a pre- isolation bleaching using KOH (5%) and sodium hypochlorite (3 .5% ); followed by steeping, wet milling and centrifugation. The starch obtained was dried in an oven at 60°C. The thermal properties were obtained by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). The work showed that Parkia starch has a pH of 5.6,density (true) 2.3lg/ml, ...
ABSTRACT The investigations of Cissampe/os owariensis have largely been driven by the desire to find new drugs or new drug leads. The studies were carried out to confirm the traditional medicinal uses of the plant C. owariensis, and to identify the chemical constituents responsible for the activity. The ethnomedicinal uses of the plant include whooping cough, wound, irregular menstrual cycle, typhoid and malaria fevers. Phytochemical screening of the roots extracts revealed the presence of...