FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR VACCINATION AMONG CHILDREN IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE AT A TERTIARY HEALTH FACILITY IN LAGOS

Factors associated with Missed Opportunities for Vaccination among children in the first year of life at a tertiary health facility in Lagos

Background: Low vaccination rates in children remain a major problem in resource-poor areas of the world.Missed opportunities for vaccination may be one of the important contributors to the menace.Objectives: To determine the prevalence of missed opportunities for vaccination and identify factors associated with this among Nigerian children in the

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Management of unilateral temporomandibular joint ankylosis by interpositional arthroplasty and bilateral coronoidectomy

Ankylosis of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is an intracapsular union of the disc-condyle complex to the temporal articular surface that restricts mandibular movement, including the fibrous adhesions or bony fusion between Seasonal condyle, disc, glenoid fossa, and articular eminence.It is more commonly associated with trauma, local or systemic

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Box-Behnken design-based optimization for deproteinization of crude polysaccharides in Lycium barbarum berry residue using the Sevag method

Deproteinization of crude polysaccharides in the residue from Lycium barbarum berries (LBBs) was conducted using the Sevag method.A Box-Behnken design based on single-factor experiments was employed to optimize the deproteinization technology.The results showed that the deproteinization conditions had significant effects on the extraction yield of

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