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Professor Christian Agyare, a pharmaceutical microbiologist, says poor quality antibiotics on the market are suspected as one of the major causes of antimicrobial resistance in Ghana. Quoting from various studies and research were undertaken by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST College of Health Sciences and other scientists over the last decade, he said a biological assay on penicillins on some selected Ghanaian markets revealed a higher minimum inhibitor

Professor Christian Agyare, a pharmaceutical microbiologist, says poor quality antibiotics on the market is suspected as one of the major causes of antimicrobial resistance in Ghana. Quoting from various studies and research undertaken by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) College of Health Sciences and other scientists…

Professor Christian Agyare, Provost, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), says Ghana must take ethnopharmacological studies seriously to preserve traditional medicinal knowledge. “Especially in developing countries, almost every year or day, traditional knowledge of medicinal plants decreases, without necessarily being transferred to younger people.…

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