ILLICIT DRUGS USE IN SOUTH AFRICAN FEMALE CORRECTIONAL CENTRES

Illicit drugs use in South African female correctional centres

The number of male prisoners is several times that of female prisoners worldwide, yet paradoxically, women illicit drug users outnumber men.Even though the use of illicit drugs is prohibited within prisons, the substances continue to permeate speculums-and-spreaders prisons and the behaviour thrives therein.The channels through which illicit drugs

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Non-Combustible Source Indoor Air Pollutants Concentration in Beauty Salons and Associated Self-Reported Health Problems Among the Beauty Salon Workers

Mihretu Tagesse,1 Mulunesh Deti,1 Dessalegn Dadi,1 Berhanu Nigussie,2 Tizita Teshome Eshetu,1 Gudina Terefe Tucho1 1Department of Environmental Health Science and Technology, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia; 2Department of Behavioral Sciences, College of Education and Behavioural Science, Jimma University, Jimma, EthiopiaCorr

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Monoclonal antibodies against accumulation-associated protein affect EPS biosynthesis and enhance bacterial accumulation of Staphylococcus epidermidis.

Because there is no effective antibiotic to eradicate Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm infections that lead to the failure of medical device implantations, the development of anti-biofilm vaccines is necessary.Biofilm formation by S.epidermidis requires accumulation-associated protein (Aap) that contains sequence repeats known as G5 domains, whic

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