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Isolation and characterisation of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii from environmental sources in Nairobi, Kenya
(2014)Objective: To establish the environmental reservoirs of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in Nairobi, Kenya. Design: Prospective study. Setting: Kenya Medical Research Institute, Mycology laboratory, Nairobi, ... -
Transport Mechanism in TiO2/In(OH)xSy/Pb(OH)xSy/PEDOT:PSS eta Solar Cell
(2015)Transport mechanism studies in TiO2/In(OH)xSy/Pb(OH)xSy/PEDOT:PSS eta solar cell have been carried out. The characterizations have been performed both in the dark and under varying illumination intensity for temperature ... -
Anti-vancomycin-resistant Enterococcusfaecium and E. faecalis ACTIVITIES of (-)-gossypol and derivatives from Thespesia garckeana.
(2015)The root extract of Thespesia garckeana yielded three known oxidatively coupled sesquiterpenoids, namely (-)-gossypol (1) and two of its derivatives (-)-6-methoxygossypol (2) and (+)-6,6'-dimethoxygossypol (3), and the ... -
Prevalence of cervical cytology abnormalities among HIV infected women at Rwanda Military Hospital
(2014)Objectives: To establish the prevalence of cervical cytology abnormalities, determine the correlation between CD4+ cell count and abnormal Pap smear, determine the correlation between WHO-HIV staging and abnormal pap smear ... -
Patterns of poisoning among patients aged 0-13 years at a paediatric hospital in Nairobi
(2014)Objectives: To determine the pattern of poisoning amongst patients admitted at a paediatric hospital in Nairobi and compare it with that of other hospitals around the world Design: A retrospective hospital based multivariate ... -
Efficacy of antimicrobial activity of garlic extracts on bacterial pathogens commonly found to contaminate meat
(2014)Background: Meat is a major source of food and raw materials for a number of industries, yet a lot of meat is wasted each year due to deterioration as a result of spoilage by microorganisms such as Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, ... -
Co-administration of albendazole and levamisole to control multiple anthelmintic resistant nematodes in a sheep farm in Kabete Kenya.
(2014)Albendazole (ABZ) and levamisole (LEV) were co-administered to evaluate their ability to control natural helminth infections in a sheep farm where resistance to the individual anthelmintic had previously been reported. ... -
A retrospective study on the prevalence of plastic materials in the rumen of sheep and goats in Nairobi, Kenya.
(2014)A retrospective study of small ruminant necropsy cases between January 1982 and December 2012 was conducted at the Department of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University ... -
Determinants of perceptions of climate change and adaptation among Turkana pastoralists in northwestern Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014-03-25)There is a growing concern that climate variability and change, combined with other environmental, social and political pressures, may overwhelm resilience of pastoral systems if local adaptation strategies are not ... -
Mitrofanoff Urinary Diversion: A Report of Three Cases
(2014)The quality of life in patients with urinary incontinence or irreparable urethral stricturing can be improved by diversion with construction of catheterizable urinary stomas. We report our experience with three patients ... -
Feracrylum does not Reduce the Incidence of Seroma Formation after Modified Radical Mastectomy
(2014)Background: Seroma formation, a common complication after mastectomy, may necessitate many hospital visits, carries an increased risk of infection and may delay adjuvant treatment. Many different unsuccessful procedures ... -
Early Experience with Stapled Hemorrhoidopexy in Nairobi, Kenya
(2014)Background: Conventional hemorrhoidectomy (CH) is considered the gold standard in the surgical management of symptomatic hemorrhoids. It is however painful and has a relatively lengthy convalescence period. In the last two ... -
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Evolution of Kenya's banking sector 2000-2012. In A Heyer & M. King (Eds.)
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Sexual intercourse euphemisms in the Gĩkũyũ language: a cognitive linguistics approach
(2015)The research on which this paper is based set out to identify the sexual intercourse euphemisms used in Gĩkũyũ, a Bantu language spoken in Kenya, then discuss the semantic and lexical processes used in those euphemisms, and, ... -
Mchongoano and the ethnography of communication
(2015)This paper is an attempt to give an ethnographic description of mchongoano in order to understand how it achieves its objectives. Mchongoano is a verbal duelling game popular with young people in Kenya but also appreciated ... -
Alignment systems and passive-antipassive distribution in nilotic languages
(2015)This paper discusses the occurrence of passive and antipassive constructions in Nilotic languages in relation to the question of whether Nilotic languages developed from an ergative-absolutive to a nominativeaccusative case ... -
Inflectional forms of tense and aspect in Ateso
(2015)This paper is an analysis of tense and aspect in Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic language. Ateso distinguishes between past and non-past tenses: the past tense is marked by a low tone on the syllable peaks of the verb, while ...
