Abstract Background In the absence of a cure or effective treatment for dementia, attention has shifted towards identifying risk factors for prevention.Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) describes self-perceived worsening of cognition despite unimpaired performance on neuropsychological tests.SCD has been associated with an increased dementia risk
Transactional sex among Nigerian university students: The role of family structure and family support.
BackgroundThe reasons for the persistence of risky sexual behaviours among adolescents and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa despite the increasing knowledge about the associated risks continue to attract scholarly debates.Drawing from a cross-sectional study conducted among male and female Nigerian university students, we examined the relationshi
A novel mechanism of streptomycin resistance in Yersinia pestis: Mutation in the rpsL gene.
Streptomycin is considered to be one of the effective antibiotics for the treatment of plague.In order to investigate the streptomycin resistance Denim of Y.pestis in China, we evaluated streptomycin susceptibility of 536 Y.pestis strains in China in vitro using the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) and screened streptomycin resistance-associa