Chika Bright Ikele1*, Ugwu Venita Uju1, Chioma Faith Ikele2
... against infective stage theronts. Two solvents, ethanol and chloroform solvents were used to extract five botanicals i.e., bitter kola (Garcinia kola), cashew leaf (Anacardium occidentale), bitter leaf (Vernonia amygdalina), lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus) and ocimum leaf (Ocimum gratissimum) to investigate their efficacy against theronts for 24 hours. A 100 µl (480 theronts) were...
Chinenye Maria-Goretti Ohanu, Chika Bright Ikele*, Okoye, ChukwuEbuka Kingsley, Charity Chidera Eze
...ere infected with 10,875 theronts and were randomly distributed in triplicates into five groups (A-E). Groups A, B and C (500mg/L chloramphenicol) served as the normal, negative control, and positive control, while groups D and E were treated with 500mg/L and 1,500mg/L ELEOG, respectively. ELEOG controlled the parasitaemia after the seventh-day post-inoculation but persisted after treatment relative to the standard drug, chloramphenicol’s significant (P=...
