Ideas For Pharmaceutical Microbiology Project In Nigeria

Pharmaceutical microbiology project

Pharmaceutical microbiology (P.M.B) project is simple to do in principle. The actual reality is far different from that. The advice to students in this department is to stay clear if they are not very good in terms of simple hygiene or they will suffer the consequence of their choice. After reading this post, you may know the reason.

As usual, the project begins with getting a project supervisor. The next is an appropriate topic. Before starting the project properly, approval of the project proposal is mandatory. Let us assume you have passed all these stages.
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Project work in PMB can be divided into a survey, recent trend research and bench work. Let us see what each entail.

Survey In PMB

If you are very conversant with the previous post on the similar topic in this blog, you will understand that clinical pharmacy and pharmacy administration (P.C.A) is the major department that majors on the survey method. The rest do not carry out much of survey. However, the survey in PMB may require the student to go to hotels, hospitals etc. to gather data from educated, and non-educated persons, non-workers, etc. the survey tends to enquire using different survey methods to get information as to the lifestyle of the people. Sometimes, the hospital is the source of some data.
A good example of a survey work in PMB is ‘an epidemiology survey for schistosomiasis among pupils in the Uuwherun clan in Ughelli North Local Government Area (L.G.A) of Delta State. In this kind of project, adopting the questionnaire or the other survey method is the only way forward. In addition, these data can be taken from a hospital without compromising the identity of the patients.

Research Analysis In PMB

This is very simple but very rare. Most lecturers prefer topics with this design when there is a recent buzz on a new solution to a problem. However, it is not always of a recent trend. The reason the recent trend is common is that probably no one has written on it. It involves doing research on what people have said or written on a problem and looking at loopholes in their previous work. This can open up a solution path or suggestion for next researchers to concentrate on. For example, a project can be on the history of PMB in Nigeria. For example, history on treatment options developed for HIV/AIDS treatment.

Bench Work

I was talking previously about this part concerning how difficult PMB project can be. There are different areas to cover when the student is talking about bench work. Let us discuss them gradually.
The most common bench work is when the student is to investigate the effect of a drug or natural extract on a name specie of microorganism. In this method, the student will first do the extraction in pharmacognosy and traditional medicine (P.C.G) laboratory. In some cases, the extract is isolated to a compound or group of compounds in pharmaceutical chemistry (P.C.H) laboratory.
The specie of microorganism is harvested and isolated. The method is simple. Locate a place the microorganism is likely going to be. Use a swab cotton to rub onto the place. The swab cotton smeared on a sterile agar bottle to transfer the microorganisms to the bottle where they will multiply. The possibility that other unwanted microbes would be there is high. In the next step, a wire loop uses to collect a small portion of the microorganism from the bottle and make a zigzag pattern on an agar plate. This will introduce different species of bacteria to the plate. However, the species will scatter all around the zigzag line. Take the last cells with a wire loop, which should be rubbed off, far away from the next cell of probably a different species. This microorganism is culture by placing the wire loop in a sterile petri dish with nutrient. This should grow into colonies.
For a project involving the determination of the type of microorganism in a location, microbial determination technique suitable for the project is use after isolation of the different colonies. For others involving testing the strength of an anti-microbial agent on the specie, the specie is identified and cultured in a plate. Introduction of the agent is next. There are different methods. Check with the method suggested by the supervisor. The same technique is employed when the agents are more than one and the student is to test for the compare the strength of each. The degree of the zone of inhibition is measured.
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One other very common PMB project is isolating and comparing the nature or type of microbial contamination in a source. It could be in a well, water, tap water, food, sealed drugs, expired drugs etc. In fact, the list is almost endless. Sometimes, the most effective agent for these microorganisms is analysed using the method above.
This is how simple PMB project is in terms of principle. However, avoid PMB project f you know you are not very good in hygiene. Any little mistake, the whole work will be contaminated with a foreign microorganism giving you a false result.
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