Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Treatment of chronic heart failure in adults at a referral hospital in Kenya: adverse drug reactions and determinants of adherence
(2016)Background: Chronic Heart Failure is a major health problem with a prevalence of between 1 and 12% in USA and Europe, and approximately 5.7% in Sub-Saharan Africa, and has socio-economic relevance owing to its high prevalence, ... -
Determinants of Discontinuation of Contraceptive Methods among Women at Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya
(2016)Background: Contraceptive use prevalence in Kenya is at 58% according to the 2014 Kenya Demographic Health Survey. Several factors lead to discontinuation and switch of contraceptives. Discontinuation rate as per ... -
Impact of depression on adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV/AIDS patients at a Kenyan referral hospital
(2016)Background: Kenya is faced with an increasing challenge of co-morbid psychological and social factors among HIV-Infected patients which has had a profound impact on their medication adherence. A major psychosocial factor ... -
PhD thesis defense
(2016)A thesis oral defence is the culmination of research enquiryon a specific subject or project. The defence provides an opportunity for presentation and sustained argument in support of the findings. This is preceded by ... -
Maternal Neutralization-Resistant Virus Variants Do Not Predict Infant HIV Infection Risk
(2016)Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV provides a setting for studying immune correlates of protection. Neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) are suggested to contribute to a viral bottleneck during MTCT, but their role in ... -
High Rates of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Both Arms of a Peer Counseling Study Promoting EBF Among HIV-Infected Kenyan Women
(2016)Background: Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is recommended for 6 months after delivery as the optimal infant feeding method and is especially important for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT). However, EBF ... -
Room temperature stable carbetocin for the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage during the third stage of labour in women delivering vaginally: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
(2016)Background Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal mortality in low-income countries and contributes to nearly a quarter of maternal deaths globally. The current available interventions for prevention ... -
Uptake and Effectiveness of a Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccine in Children in Urban and Rural Kenya, 2010 to 2012.
(2016)In Africa, recent surveillance has demonstrated a high burden of influenza, but influenza vaccine is rarely used. In Kenya, a country with a tropical climate, influenza has been shown to circulate year-round, like in other ... -
Serotype and genetic diversity of human rhinovirus strains that circulated in Kenya in 2008
(2016)Background Human rhinoviruses (HRVs) are a well-established cause of the common cold and recent studies indicated that they may be associated with severe acute respiratory illnesses (SARIs) like pneumonia, asthma, and ... -
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry for comprehensive indexing of East African ixodid tick species
(2016)The tick population of Africa includes several important genera belonging to the family Ixodidae. Many of these ticks are vectors of protozoan and rickettsial pathogens including Theileria parva that causes East Coast ... -
Changes in Vaginal Microbiota and Immune Mediators in HIV-1-Seronegative Kenyan Women Initiating Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate
(2016)Background: Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) is associated with HIV acquisition. We studied changes in vaginal microbiota and inflammatory milieu after DMPA initiation. Methods: In a cohort of HIV-negative Kenyan ... -
Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Responses in a Large Longitudinal Sub-Saharan HIV Primary Infection Cohort.
(2016)Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) are thought to be a critical component of a protective HIV vaccine. However, designing vaccines immunogens able to elicit bnAbs has proven unsuccessful to date. Understanding the ... -
Schistosoma haematobium and soil-transmitted Helminths in Tana Delta District of Kenya: infection and morbidity patterns in primary schoolchildren from two isolated villages
(2016)Schistosomes and soil-transmitted helminths (STH) (hookworm, Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides) are widely distributed in developing countries where they infect over 230 million and 1.5 billion people, respectively. ... -
Structural and Optical Characterization of Tin Oxide Codoped with Aluminum and Sulphur
(2015)Thin films of Tin oxide co-doped with 28at%Aluminum and varied concentration of Sulphur were prepared on 1mm thick, 1 × 1 cm2 glass substrates at 470℃ by spray pyrolysis technique. Films were produced from 2.0 M solution ... -
The digital matatu project: Using cell phones to create an open source data for Nairobi's semi-formal bus system
(Elsevier, 2015)In many of the world's growing cities, semi-formal buses form the basis of public transit systems. However, little open and standardized data exist on these systems. The Digital Matatus project in Nairobi, Kenya set out ... -
A hardware based model for an asset monitoring and tracking system: Case of laptops
(2015)Corporate mobility initiatives and the anytime, anywhere information workers is on the rise. This is mostly fuelled by availability of affordable and more powerful mobile computing devices, especially laptops and tablets. ... -
A note on quasi-similarity of operators in Hilbert spaces
(2015)In this paper we introduce the notion of Quasi-similarity of bounded linear operators in Hilbert Spaces. We do so by defining a quasi- affinity from one Hilbert Space H to K. Some results on quasi- affinities are also ...
