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Millennium Global Village-Net: bringing together Millennium Villages throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
(2009-12)
The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), based at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a bottom-up, community led approach to show how villages in developing countries can get out of the poverty trap that afflicts ...
Kinetics, distribution, and efficacy of ceftriaxone versus cefazolin in open heart surgery.
(1984)
The effects of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with hypothermia and systemic heparinization on ceftriaxone disposition were evaluated in seven male patients. A bolus dose of drug (14 mg/kg of body weight) was given, and blood ...
Practical therapeutics: treatment of complications of malaria
(1984)
he currently used methods for assessing the therapeutic response to antimalarial drugs are relatively imprecise and insensitive. These methods are inadequate in severe malaria when the objectives of treatment are to save ...
Food supplements have a positive impact on weight gain and the addition of animal source foods increases lean body mass of Kenyan schoolchildren
(2003)
Observational studies of dietary patterns and growth and studies with milk supplementation have shown that children consuming diets containing animal source foods grow better. This study evaluates the growth of 544 Kenyan ...
Neutralizing antibody escape during HIV-1 mother-to-child transmission involves conformational masking of distal epitopes in envelope.
(2012-09)
HIV-1 variants transmitted to infants are often resistant to maternal neutralizing antibodies (NAbs), suggesting that they have escaped maternal NAb pressure. To define the molecular basis of NAb escape that contributes ...
University medical education in Kenya: The challenges.
(2010)
There are two medical schools training doctors in Kenya: the Moi University established in 1984 and the University of Nairobi established in 1967. The University of Nairobi has so far produced the majority of Kenyan doctors. ...
Monoclonal antibodies against boar sperm zona pellucida-binding protein AWN-1. Characterization of a continuous antigenic determinant and immunolocalization of AWN epitopes in inseminated sows
(1997)
Boar spermadhesin AWN-1 is a sperm surface-associated 14.7-kDa lectin and a major protein of porcine seminal plasma. AWN-1 binds to beta-galactosides and to porcine zona pellucida glycoproteins, suggesting that this protein ...
Evaluation of fleroxacin (RO 23-6240) as single-oral-dose therapy of culture-proven chancroid in Nairobi, Kenya
(1989)
Chancroid is gaining importance as a sexually transmitted disease because of its association with transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Effective, simply administered therapy for chancroid is necessary. ...