18 research outputs found
Current antibiotic susceptibility profile of the bacteria associated with Surgical wound infections in the Buea health district in Cameroon
Background: Most surgical wounds seen in clinical practice in the Buea Health District, Cameroon are infected prior to arrival or while they are in the hospital. Sometimes the infection necessitates a combination of local wound site measures and systemic antibiotherapy to properly manage the patient.Objective: To identify the current antibiotic susceptibility profile of the common germs that cause surgical wound infections in the Buea Health District of Cameroon.Methods: A total of 2120 specimens comprising swabs from burns, ulcers, open or post-operative wounds were collected from hospitalized patients attending health institutions in Buea. The samples were collected from different anatomic sites of the patients. Cultures were effected from the specimens and bacteria isolated from infected wounds using standard microbiological techniques. Antibiotic susceptibility of the different isolates was determined.Results: Majority (79.8%) of the wounds were infected with pathogenic bacteria. The germs globally showed multi resistant patterns to commonly used antibiotics in the study area, especially to co-trimoxazol, doxycycline, chloramphemicol, ampicilline and aztreonam. However appreciable sensitivity was noted to ofloxacillin, perflacin, and ceftriazone.Conclusion: This study has revealed ofloxacin as the only antibiotic to which all the isolated bacteria from infected wounds were sensitive in the study area.Keywords: Wound infection, Antibiotic susceptibility profile, Buea Health District, Cameroo
Recoil Polarization Measurements of the Proton Electromagnetic Form Factor Ratio to Q^2 = 8.5 GeV^2
Among the most fundamental observables of nucleon structure, electromagnetic
form factors are a crucial benchmark for modern calculations describing the
strong interaction dynamics of the nucleon's quark constituents; indeed, recent
proton data have attracted intense theoretical interest. In this letter, we
report new measurements of the proton electromagnetic form factor ratio using
the recoil polarization method, at momentum transfers Q2=5.2, 6.7, and 8.5
GeV2. By extending the range of Q2 for which GEp is accurately determined by
more than 50%, these measurements will provide significant constraints on
models of nucleon structure in the non-perturbative regime
Measurements of Non-Singlet Moments of the Nucleon Structure Functions and Comparison to Predictions from Lattice QCD for
We present extractions of the nucleon non-singlet moments utilizing new
precision data on the deuteron structure function at large Bjorken-
determined via the Rosenbluth separation technique at Jefferson Lab
Experimental Hall C. These new data are combined with a complementary set of
data on the proton previously measured in Hall C at similar kinematics and
world data sets on the proton and deuteron at lower measured at SLAC and
CERN. The new Jefferson Lab data provide coverage of the upper third of the
range, crucial for precision determination of the higher moments. In contrast
to previous extractions, these moments have been corrected for nuclear effects
in the deuteron using a new global fit to the deuteron and proton data. The
obtained experimental moments represent an order of magnitude improvement in
precision over previous extractions using high data. Moreover, recent
exciting developments in Lattice QCD calculations provide a first ever
comparison of these new experimental results with calculations of moments
carried out at the physical pion mass, as well as a new approach which first
calculates the quark distributions directly before determining moments
Search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables in elastic scattering
Intensive theoretical and experimental efforts over the past decade have
aimed at explaining the discrepancy between data for the proton electric to
magnetic form factor ratio, , obtained separately from cross
section and polarization transfer measurements. One possible explanation for
this difference is a two-photon-exchange (TPEX) contribution. In an effort to
search for effects beyond the one-photon-exchange or Born approximation, we
report measurements of polarization transfer observables in the elastic
reaction for three different beam energies at a fixed
squared momentum transfer GeV, spanning a wide range of the
virtual photon polarization parameter, . From these measured
polarization observables, we have obtained separately the ratio , which
equals in the Born approximation, and the longitudinal
polarization transfer component , with statistical and systematic
uncertainties of \Delta R \approx \pm 0.01 \mbox{(stat)} \pm 0.013
\mbox{(syst)} and \Delta P_\ell/P^{Born}_{\ell} \approx \pm 0.006
\mbox{(stat)}\pm 0.01 \mbox{(syst)}. The ratio is found to be independent
of at the 1.5% level, while the dependence of
shows an enhancement of relative to the Born approximation at
large
Exclusive photoproduction of pi degrees up to large values of Mandelstam variables s, t, and u with CLAS
Exclusive photoproduction cross sections have been measured for the process
with the Dalitz decay final state
using tagged photon energies in the range of GeV.
The complete angular distribution of the final state , for the entire
photon energy range up to large values of and , has been measured for
the first time. The data obtained show that the cross section , at
mid to large angles, decreases with energy as . This is in
agreement with the perturbative QCD quark counting rule prediction of . Paradoxically, the size of angular distribution of measured cross sections
is greatly underestimated by the QCD based Generalized Parton Distribution
mechanism at highest available invariant energy GeV. At the same
time, the Regge exchange based models for photoproduction are more
consistent with experimental data.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Foraging behaviour of Apis mellifera adansonii Latreille (Hymenoptera : Apidae) on Daniellia oliveri, Delonix regia, Hymenocardia acida and Terminalia mantaly flowers in Ngaoundéré (Cameroon)
To determine the apicultural value of Daniellia oliveri, Delonix regia, Hymenocardia acida and Terminalia mantaly, the foraging activity of the honey bee, Apis mellifera adansonii was studied on flowers in the area of Ngaoundéré, from December 2001 to May 2002 and from December 2002 to May 2003. At Dang, flowers of each plant species were prospected at least four days per month, between 07.00 and 18.00 h, for recording of the nectar and/or pollen foraging behaviour of A. m. adansonii workers. Results showed that A. m. adansonii harvested nectar and pollen of each plant species. The greatest number of workers foraging simultaneously on a plant varied from 230 (H. acida) to 3500 (De. Regia). A. m. adansonii workers that visited flowers of a given plant species once generally remained with this nectar and/or pollen sources throughout the observation period. Thus Da. oliveri, De. regia, H. acida and T. mantaly could be cultivated and protected to increase honey production. Each of the four plant species could enable beekeepers to increase their pollen production as a hive product. On each plant species, A. m. adansonii workers carried pollen from one flower to another and can thus be considered as pollinators.© 2010 International Formulae Group. All rights reserved.Keywords: Nectar, pollen, bee plant, apicultural value, honey, pollination, Dang