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Blood Pressure Levels and Associated Lifestyles Practices among Spouses of Patients with Hypertension Attending the General Outpatient Clinic of a Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria.

West African journal of medicine

Akujobi HC, Inem V, Oyedokun A, Attoye TE.
PMID: 28276044
West Afr J Med. 2015 Jul-Sep;34(3):185-192.

BACKGROUND: Hypertension is the commonest cardiovascular risk factor in the world. In Nigeria there have been rapid changes to a more western lifestyle and this is strongly associated with hypertension. Many spouses share similar lifestyle practices. The aim was...

Design and baseline characteristics of the Food4Me study: a web-based randomised controlled trial of personalised nutrition in seven European countries.

Genes & nutrition

Celis-Morales C, Livingstone KM, Marsaux CF, Forster H, O'Donovan CB, Woolhead C, Macready AL, Fallaize R, Navas-Carretero S, San-Cristobal R, Kolossa S, Hartwig K, Tsirigoti L, Lambrinou CP, Moschonis G, Godlewska M, Surwiłło A, Grimaldi K, Bouwman J, Daly EJ, Akujobi V, O'Riordan R, Hoonhout J, Claassen A, Hoeller U, Gundersen TE, Kaland SE, Matthews JN, Manios Y, Traczyk I, Drevon CA, Gibney ER, Brennan L, Walsh MC, Lovegrove JA, Alfredo Martinez J, Saris WH, Daniel H, Gibney M, Mathers JC.
PMID: 25491748
Genes Nutr. 2015 Jan;10(1):450. doi: 10.1007/s12263-014-0450-2. Epub 2014 Dec 10.

Improving lifestyle behaviours has considerable potential for reducing the global burden of non-communicable diseases, promoting better health across the life-course and increasing well-being. However, realising this potential will require the development, testing and implementation of much more effective behaviour...

EFFECT OF TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE PROPHYLAXIS ON FEACAL CARRIAGE RATES OF RESISTANT ISOLATES OF .

African journal of infectious diseases

Egwuatu CC, Ogunsola FT, Iwuafor AA, Akujobi CN, Egwuatu TO, Nnachi AU, Oduyebo OO.
PMID: 28337490
Afr J Infect Dis. 2016 Nov 24;11(1):18-25. doi: 10.4314/ajid.v11i1.4536. eCollection 2017.

BACKGROUND: The daily use of Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) prophylaxis reduces morbidity and mortality among patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) but its impact on increasing antimicrobial resistance rates has been of public health concern, globally. This study investigated the...

North-eastern Nigeria: assessing the response capacity of National Emergency Management Agency to the plights of internally displaced persons.

Heliyon

Raji S, Adekayaoja FA, Agaku EA, Akujobi J, Hamzat AA.
PMID: 34189316
Heliyon. 2021 Jun 09;7(6):e07274. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07274. eCollection 2021 Jun.

The plights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), including hunger, rape, insecurity, and death, have assumed a frightening dimension in North-eastern Nigeria with the sustained intervention of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to ameliorate their sufferings. This paper aimed...

Environmental T4-Family Bacteriophages Evolve to Escape Abortive Infection via Multiple Routes in a Bacterial Host Employing "Altruistic Suicide" through Type III Toxin-Antitoxin Systems.

Frontiers in microbiology

Chen B, Akusobi C, Fang X, Salmond GPC.
PMID: 28620370
Front Microbiol. 2017 May 31;8:1006. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01006. eCollection 2017.

Abortive infection is an anti-phage mechanism employed by a bacterium to initiate its own death upon phage infection. This reduces, or eliminates, production of viral progeny and protects clonal siblings in the bacterial population by an act akin to...

IDCases

Patel AA, Akusoba CN, Yetmar ZA, Tabaja H, Schuetz AN, Camilleri MJ, Abu Saleh OM.
PMID: 33898256
IDCases. 2021 Mar 31;24:e01102. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01102. eCollection 2021.

No abstract available.

EFFECT OF TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE PROPHYLAXIS ON FAECAL CARRIAGE RATES OF RESISTANT ISOLATES OF .

African journal of infectious diseases

Egwuatu CC, Iwuafor AA, Egwuatu TO, Akujobi CN, Nnachi AU, Aghanya IN, Ogunsola FT, Oduyebo OO.
PMID: 28480451
Afr J Infect Dis. 2016 May 01;10(2):156-163. doi: 10.21010/ajid.v10i2.12. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: The daily use of Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) prophylaxis reduces morbidity and mortality among patients infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) but its impact on increasing antimicrobial resistance rates has been of public concern globally. This study investigated the effect...

Is routine antenatal venereal disease research laboratory test still justified? Nigerian experience.

International journal of women's health

Nwosu BO, Eleje GU, Obi-Nwosu AL, Ahiarakwem IF, Akujobi CN, Egwuatu CC, Onyiuke CO.
PMID: 25610000
Int J Womens Health. 2015 Jan 07;7:41-6. doi: 10.2147/IJWH.S70442. eCollection 2015.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the seroreactivity of pregnant women to syphilis in order to justify the need for routine antenatal syphilis screening.METHODS: A multicenter retrospective analysis of routine antenatal venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL) test results between 1 September 2010...

Parallel Evolution of Host-Attachment Proteins in Phage PP01 Populations Adapting to .

Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)

Akusobi C, Chan BK, Williams ESCP, Wertz JE, Turner PE.
PMID: 29925767
Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2018 Jun 20;11(2). doi: 10.3390/ph11020060.

The emergence of antibiotic resistance has sparked interest in phage therapy, which uses virulent phages as antibacterial agents. Bacteriophage PP01 has been studied for potential bio-control of

Modeling Site-Specific Nucleotide Biases Affecting Himar1 Transposon Insertion Frequencies in TnSeq Data Sets.

mSystems

Choudhery S, Brown AJ, Akusobi C, Rubin EJ, Sassetti CM, Ioerger TR.
PMID: 34665010
mSystems. 2021 Oct 26;6(5):e0087621. doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00876-21. Epub 2021 Oct 19.

TnSeq is a widely used methodology for determining gene essentiality, conditional fitness, and genetic interactions in bacteria. The Himar1 transposon is restricted to insertions at TA dinucleotides, but otherwise, few site-specific biases have been identified. As a result, most...

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