Hydrocarbonoclastic microorganisms elaborate a number of hydrocarbons utilising genes that enable them to use crude oil hydrocarbons as carbon sources. These genes could either be located on the plasmid or chromosome. The primary aim of this study was, therefore, to isolate hydro...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2018/v1i3786
Introduction: Studies have shown that molecular techniques are better in describing microbial diversity in various ecosystems than cultural techniques. The study was aimed at comparative evaluation of the microbial diversity of benthic and epipellic sediments using cultural and m...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2018/41431
Introduction: Access to potable water is a fundamental human right. However, this is hardly the case in the rural areas of oil producing communities of the Niger Delta. Aim of Study: The primary aim of this study was therefore to evaluate the physicochemical and microbiological q...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2018/v1i11194
An Overview of Cultural, Molecular and Metagenomic Techniques in Description of Microbial Diversity Traditional microbiology based on the culture of microorganisms has been the mainstay of microbiology for over a century and has contributed immensely to what we now know about the...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/37951
Antibiotics resistance genes (ARGs) in environmental samples have been implicated in the clinical spread of resistance to antibiotics. This study was therefore aimed at the metagenomic assessment of ARGs from various environmental samples. Benthic, epipellic, estuary and soil sam...
Background: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the commonest infections during pregnancy and results in perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality. For bacterial UTIs, the causative agents have remained virtually the same although with variations in individual prevalence...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/32159