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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=48992#.VJeFbcCAM4 Author(s) Collise Njume 1,2* , Bomkazi M. Gqaza 3 , Grace George 3 , Nomalungelo I. Goduka 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Centre for Rural Development, Enkululekweni, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha 5117, South Africa . 2 Department of Medical Microbiology, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha 5117, South Africa . 3 Department of Medical Biochemistry, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha 5117, South Africa . ABSTRACT Antimicrobial resistance is a major problem in the management of infectious diseases. African indigenous functional food-plants such as Chenopodium album and Solanum nigrum may constitute important sources of phytoc...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=48985#.VJd8ycCAM4 Author(s) Masaaki Minami 1* , Ryoko Sakakibara 2 , Taichi Imura 2 , Hideo Morita 2 , Naoto Kanemaki 3 , Michio Ohta 4 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan . 2 Department of Clinical Investigation, Daido Hospital, Nagoya, Japan . 3 Department of Gastroenterology, Daido Hospital, Nagoya, Japan . 4 School of Nursing, Sugiyama Jyogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan . ABSTRACT Streptococcus pneumonia infection is important cause of morbidity and mortality. This study was conducted to find out the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibili...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=49352#.VI5OM8nQrzE Author(s) Peter S. Nyasulu , Christine Paszko , Nontombi Mbelle Affiliation(s) Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Monash University, Johannesburg, South Africa . Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc., West End, NC, USA . Department of Medical Microbiology, University of the Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa . ABSTRACT A laboratory information system (LIS) established in a microbiology department has the potential to play an important role in the quality of microbiology data such as culture of blood, urine, stool, pus swab samples etc. Such data could b e effectively utilised to measure th...