Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS): Recent submissions
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Community-acquired bacterial infections and their susceptibility in Nairobi
(Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, 1977)To monitor clinically significant isolates and their antimicrobial susceptibilities, all specimens sent to microbiology laboratory of the Kenyatta National Hospital were cultured on appropriate media. The susceptibility ... -
PPAR-delta senses and orchestrates clearance of apoptotic cells to promote tolerance.
(2009)Macrophages rapidly engulf apoptotic cells to limit the release of noxious cellular contents and to restrict autoimmune responses against self antigens. Although factors participating in recognition and engulfment of ... -
Chronic experimental allergic neuritis in Lewis rats.
(1989)An experimental chronic relapsing demyelinating neuropathy was produced by immunizing adult Lewis rats with bovine myelin in low (2.5 mg) and high (5 mg) doses, with and without Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the adjuvant. ... -
Multiple sclerosis: epidemic in Kenya.
(1989)Over a period of five years, November, 1983 to October, 1988 six cases of definite multiple sclerosis were identified at Kenyatta National Hospital. Four were females and two were males. Age of onset of disease ranged from ... -
Major histocompatibility complex class I and class II polymorphism in chronic idiopathic demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy.
(1990)Thirty-one chronic idiopathic demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) patients have been typed for HLA-A, -B and -C antigens serologically and for HLA-DR, -DQ and -DP class II genes by RFLP analysis. Our results confirm ... -
Effect of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 viral genotype on mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1.
(Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CanadaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaInstitute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2000)The objective of this study was to determine whether the maternal infecting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 clade affects mother-to-child transmission frequency. Mothers in the mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission ... -
HIV-associated lymphoma: report of three cases.
(Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1999)Persons with congenital or acquired immunosuppression have long been known to have an increased incidence of lymphoproliferative disorders. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), caused ... -
Unusual form of motor neuron disease in Kenya.
(Source Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1992)Over the period November 1978 to October 1988, 46 cases of motor neuron disease were seen at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi. One case was seen in private practice. A bimodal age distribution of the disease was identified ... -
Viral markers in a blood donor population.
(Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi., 1999)The viral safety of blood depends on donor selection and screening of the blood for viruses. OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of human immunodeficiency viruses 1 and 2, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus in ... -
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 ... -
Pattern of wound infection in the burns unit, Kenyatta National Hospital 1976
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Some effects of the rising case load of adult HIV-related disease on a hospital in Nairobi.
(1998)Increasing numbers of HIV-infected adults in Africa need hospital care. It remains unclear what impact this has on health care services or on how hospitals respond. The aim of this study was to describe the effects of a ... -
Crosslinked gelatin matrices: release of a random coil macromolecular solute.
(2004)The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of matrix crosslinking and solute size on release of a random coil macromolecular solute from crosslinked gelatin matrices. Gelatin hydrogel matrices crosslinked ... -
Upper gastrointestinal mucosal lesions in dyspeptic patients with homozygous sickle cell disease in Kenya.
(1998)A case controlled study comprising 51 patients with homozygous sickle cell (HbSS) disease who complained of dyspepsia and 41 age and sex matched non-HbSS control dyspeptic patients was carried out, to look at upper ... -
Prevalence of intestinal parasites in Kenyans with dyspepsia
(Department of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1998)Dyspepsia and intestinal worm infestation are both common clinical conditions in a developing country like Kenya and thus this study was designed to look at the correlation between the two in a referral gastroenterology ... -
Epidemiology of ophthalmia neonatorum in Kenya
(Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CanadaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, 1986)In a Nairobi hospital where ocular prophylaxis against ophthalmia neonatorum has been discontinued, 1,019 women were screened for Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis during labour and 7 and 28 days postpartum. ... -
Human genetics in the Holy Qur'an and Sunna.
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Diagnosis of acute respiratory infections (ARI) among under fives in the paediatric observation ward (POW), Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi.
(Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, 1987)
