Abrahams, Adrian Mark(University of Fort Hare, 2016)
Continued increase in the world population increases the demand for food, which requires active intervention to ensure food security. Furthermore, greenhouse gases have resulted in global warming which has triggered climate ...
Escherichia coli O157:H7 serotype has made its mark over the past decades as one of the common causes of gastrointestinal infections globally; responsible for a number of mortalities and hospilizations. Furthermore, the ...
Ogunmwonyi, Isoken Nekpen Henrietta(University of Fort Hare, 2010)
Rapidly emerging strains of bacteria resistant to most advanced antibiotics have become issues of very important public health concern. Research currently directed towards marine actinomycetes presents a vast potential for ...
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a microaerophilic, Gram-negative motile curved rod
that inhabits the gastric mucosa of the human stomach. The organism chronically infects
billions of people worldwide and is one of the ...
Oyedemi, Sunday Oyewole(University of Fort Hare, 2010)
The apparent reversal of trend from modern drugs to herbal medicine is partly due to the fact that synthetic drugs have always shown adverse reactions and other undesirable side effects. Hence, the use of medicinal plants ...
Osode, Augustina Nwabuje(University of Fort Hare, 2010)
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a common inhabitant of surface waters in the developed and eveloping worlds. The majority of E. coli cells present in water are not particularly pathogenic to humans; however, there are some ...
Tanih, Nicoline Fri(University of Fort Hare, 2011)
Helicobacter pylori is an important human pathogen known to chronically infect billions of people worldwide, causing a number of gastric related diseases. Prevalence of this organism is very high in Africa and has been ...
Crude extracts of three actinomycetes species belonging to Saccharopolyspora (TR 046 and TR 039) and Actinosynnema (TR 024) genera were screened for antibacterial activities against a panel of several bacterial strains. ...
In this study, the diversity of forty Salmonella isolates from selected drinking water and
wastewater sources in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa was assessed using
parameters such as protein and lipopolysaccharide ...
The physicochemical properties of two bioflocculant producing bacteria; Halomonas sp. Okoh and Micrococcus sp. Leo were investigated. The optimum culture conditions for the individual species were determined. All the growth ...
Hove, Runyararo Memory(University Of Fort Hare, 2009)
Plant natriuretic peptides (PNP) are novel peptides which, like in vertebrates, have been shown to have a function associated with water and salt homeostasis. Two PNP-encoding genes have been identified and isolated from ...
The effects of month on body weight, body condition scores, internal parasite prevalence
and on nutritionally related blood metabolites were studied in Angus, Bonsmara and
Nguni steers raised on sweet veld. Pre-slaughter ...
The Eastern Cape Province of South Africa is composed mainly of rural areas where the
communities still rely heavily on surface water sources for their domestic, irrigation and
recreational water needs. This fact places ...
Igbinosa, Etinosa Ogbomoede(University of Fort Hare, 2010)
Vibrio infections remain a serious threat to public health. In the last decade, Vibrio disease outbreaks have created a painful awareness of the personal, economic, societal, and public health costs associated with the ...
Bioflocculants are flocculating substances produced by microorganisms during growth and have recently received considerable attention from researchers; due to their biodegradability, non-toxicity and lack of secondary ...
Food security is of major importance due to the increasing world population with 8.9 billion people expected by 2050 (Cohen, 2003). Diuraphis noxia (RWA), have caused aggravating, massive losses to wheat farmers in many ...
Seti, Nozuko Zukiswa(University of Fort Hare, 2014)
Water is an essential need that stimulates health and well being. Increase in population size and urbanization negatively affect water resources due to high demands of effluent outputs. Wastewater is an important reservoir ...
Access to clean and safe water is essential for the survival of human beings. Pollution of freshwater sources constitutes a major problem hindering access to safe water for drinking and other domestic uses. Wastewater ...
Certain areas in the world still depend on the receiving water bodies as sources of domestic water and for recreational purposes. The discharge of poor quality effluents from wastewater treatment plants can impact negatively ...
Nyamutswa, Lavern Tendayi(University of Fort Hare, 2014)
The aim of the study was to prepare composites of clay and biomass which burn longer than unmodified biomass. Montmorillonite clay was converted to mono-ionic clay by ion exchange with sodium using sodium chloride solution. ...