Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS): Recent submissions
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A pilot study to investigate transmission of headlice
(University of NairobiDepartment of Public health, 1991)No abstract available -
Antimalarial activity of Ajuga remota Benth (Labiatae) and Caesalpinia volkensii Harms (Caesalpiniaceae): in vitro confirmation of ethnopharmacological use.
(ElsevierFaculty of Pharmacy, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya., 2001)Field trips to herbalists' practices in an area about 200 miles around Nairobi (Kenya) enabled us to make a list of medicinal plant species preferentially used to treat malaria. Ajuga remota and Caesalpinia volkensii were ... -
Spontaneous occurrence of leptomonads in human bone marrow aspirate - case report.
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 1983-04) -
Are Small-Scale Irrigators Water Use Efficient? Evidence from Lake Naivasha Basin, Kenya
(SpringerCenter for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Walter Flex Street, 53113, Bonn, Germany,, 2013)With increasing water scarcity and competing uses and users, water use efficiency is becoming increasingly important in many parts of developing countries. The lake Naivasha basin has an array of different water users and ... -
Disseminated histoplasmosis in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS): a case report.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi., 1993)A 27 year old female with AIDS and disseminated histoplasmosis is presented. The clinical features include fever, weight loss, productive cough, splenomegaly and moderate pallor. The initial working diagnosis was pulmonary ... -
BLOOD LOSS AFTER EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION.
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Relationship of cyclosporine and gingival overgrowth
(Wolters KluwerRoyal Medical Services, Jordan-Irbid, Kufur Kefia,, 1996)Cyclosporine is used as an immunosuppressive agent in organ transplantation. It has several side effects including gingival overgrowth. We evaluated 30 renal transplant patients on cyclosporine for the degrees of the ... -
Tuberous sclerosis: two case reports.
(University os NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 1978-06) -
Trimethoprim (monotrim) compared with trimethoprim-sulphonamide in the treatment of bacterial urinary tract infection.
(University of Nairobicollege of Health Science, 1991-01) -
Breastfeeding and HIV-1 infection. A review of current literature
(University of NairobiDepartment of Paediatrics, 2000)No abstract available -
High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Messenger RNA Testing in Physician- and Self-Collected Specimens for Cervical Lesion Detection in High-Risk Women, Kenya.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Obstetrics,, 2013)BACKGROUND: Little is known about the performance of physician-versus self-collected specimens for high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) messenger RNA (mRNA) testing or risk factors for hrHPV mRNA positivity in physician- ... -
A global network for investigating the genomic epidemiology of malaria
(School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, 2008-12-11)Large-scale studies of genomic variation could assist efforts to eliminate malaria. But there are scientific, ethical and practical challenges to carrying out such studies in developing countries, where the burden of disease ... -
Longitudinal assessment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-specific gamma interferon responses during the first year of life in HIV-1-infected infants.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Paediatrics, 2005)Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection results in different patterns of viral replication in pediatric compared to adult populations. The role of early HIV-1-specific responses in viral control has not been ... -
Recent trends in the pathophysiology of myocardial necrosis
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Triple antiretroviral compared with zidovudine and single-dose nevirapine prophylaxis during pregnancy and breastfeeding for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 (Kesho Bora study): a randomised controlled trial
(University of Nairobi, 2011-03)Abstract BACKGROUND: Breastfeeding is essential for child health and development in low-resource settings but carries a significant risk of transmission of HIV-1, especially in late stages of maternal disease. We aimed ... -
Baroreflex function in endurance- and static exercise-trained men.
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 1985)The effect of exercise training mode on reflex cardiovascular control was studied in a cross-sectional design. We examined the cardiovascular responses to progressive incremental phenylephrine (PE) infusion to maximal rates ... -
Prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes of HIV-positive women diagnosed with invasive cancer of the cervix in Kenya.
(Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA, 2013)OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of invasive cervical cancer (ICC) and assess access to, and outcomes of, treatment for ICC among HIV-infected women in Kisumu, Kenya. METHODS: We performed a retrospective ... -
Relationship between mortality and feeding modality among children born to HIV-infected mothers in a research setting: the Kesho Bora study
(University of Nairobi, 2013-06-19)OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between infant feeding practices and mortality by 18 months of age among children born to HIV-infected mothers in the Kesho Bora trial (Burkina-Faso, Kenya and South Africa). MET ... -
Evaluating the uptake, acceptability, and effectiveness of Uliza! clinicians' HIV hotline: a telephone consultation service in Kenya.
(Mary Ann LibertCentre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya., 2011)OBJECTIVE: Many clinical sites that serve patients who are HIV positive face challenges of insufficient staffing levels and staff training and have limited access to consultation resources including specialists on site. ... -
Evidence for Efficient Vertical Transfer of Maternal HIV-1 Envelope-Specific Neutralizing Antibodies but No Association of Such Antibodies With Reduced Infant Infection
(University of Nairobi, 2013-10-01)Little is known about the efficiency of vertical transfer of HIV-1-specific antibodies. Antibody levels in plasma from 60 mother-infant pairs near the time of birth, including 14 breast-feeding transmission pairs, were ...
