Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS): Recent submissions

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    • Survey of penicillin resistant pneumococci at kenyatta national hospital, nairobi 

      Ndinya-Achola Jeckoniah O.; Omari, MA; Odhiambo Fibi A.; Murage, E; Mutere, AN (Department of Medical Microbiology. University of Nairobi, 1997)
      During a four year period, a survey of .antibiotic sensitivity patterns in clinical isolates of pneumococci was conducted at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi. The isolation and characterisation of Streptococcus pneumoniae ...

    • Transfusion haemosiderosis inspite of regular use of desferrioxamine: case report 

      Mwanda Walter O.; Otieno CF.; Abdalla FK. (Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion. College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 2004)
      We describe a case of a female who developed haemosiderosis, in the course of treatment for very severe unstable aplastic anaemia for fourteen years. She was 37 years old at the time of initial diagnosis. Her management ...

    • Prevalence of Substance Abuse Among Patients in General Medical Facilities in Kenya 

      Ndetei David M.; Khasakhala, Lincoln I.; Ongecha-Owuor, Francisca A.; Kuria, Mary W.; Kokonya, Donald A.; Mutiso, Victoria (Routled Taylor&FrancisGroupDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, and Research Fellow, AMHF, NairobiConsultant Psychiatrist, Kakamega Provincial General Hospital. and Research Associate, AMHF, 2009-06)
      ABSTRACT. Alcoholism and other substance abuse continue to be a problem among younger and older populations. The prevalence of substance abuse has only been studied among outpatients and in limited samples of inpatients ...

    • Aerobic and facultative bacterial isolates from blood cultures of children with clinically diagnosed septicaemia 

      Odhiambo, F.A; Wamola, I.A; Ndinya-Achola, JO (Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Science University of Nairobi, 1991)
      A total of 120 sets of blood cultures were performed aerobically from 60 children with clinically diagnosed septicaemia at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi. Out of these, 36 (30%) sets from 19 (31.7%) patients yielded ...

    • Detection rate of cryptococcus neoformans in cerebrospinal fluid specimens at Kenyatta national hospital,Nairobi 

      Odhiambo Fibi A.; Murage, E.M.; Ngare, W; Ndinya-Achola Jeckoniah O. (Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi and Kenyatta National Hospital, 1997)
      A ten-year retrospective review of laboratory detection of Cryptococcus neoformans in cerebrospinal fluid was undertaken using past laboratory and clinical records at Kenyatta National Hospital. A total of 1462 India-ink ...

    • Strategic responses to challenges of globalization in the pharmaceutical industry in Kenya 

      Mwangangi, George Kavusa (School of business, 2009)
      The study aimed at establishing the challenges posed by globalization to the pharmaceutical industry in Kenya and identifying the strategic responses to globalization adopted by the pharmaceutical companies in Kenya The ...

    • Low dose clomiphane citrate therapy in oligospermic men with idiopathic primary infertility 

      Magoha, G A (College of Health Sciences, 1988)
      Eighty-one Nigerian patients with testicular torsion presented at the Urology Unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital between May 1983 and May 1985. The majority (62%) were young adults of 21 years and above with a ...

    • Challenges in the epidemiological and clinical aspects of burkitt's lymphoma in kenya: 

      Mwanda Walter O.; Rochford R.; Rainey J.; Wilson M L. (Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 2004)
      Background: In a series of 1005 cases of Burkitt's lymphoma studied for epidemiological and clinical characteristics, some features remain less obvious contrary to what is commonly held about this disease. Objectives: ...

    • Capacity building for the clinical investigation of aids malignancy in East Africa 

      Orem, Jackson; Mwanda, W. Otieno; Banura, Cecily; Edward Katongole-Mbidde, Edward; Johnson, John L.; Ayers, Leona; Ghannoum, Mahmud; Fu, Pingfu; Feigal, Ellen G.; Black, Jodi; Whalen, Christopher; Lederman, Michael; Remick, Scot C. (College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2004)
      Purpose: To build capacity in the resource-poor selling to support the clinical investigation and treatmcnt of AID -related malignancies in a region of the world hardest hit by the AIDs pandemic. Methods: An initial MEDLINE ...

    • Utilisation of sexual health services by female sex workers in Nepal. 

      Ngugi, Elizabeth N; Ghimire, L; Smith, C W; Teijlingen, E R V (Department of Community HeaLth, College of HeaLth Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011-05)
      BACKGROUND: The Nepal Demographic Health Survey (NDHS) in 2006 showed that more than half (56%) of the women with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, in Nepal sought sexual health services. There is ...

    • Substance abuse and psychiatric co-morbidities: 

      Ndetei David M.; Kuria, Mary W.; Khasakhala, Lincoln; Pizzo, Matteo; Mutiso, Victoria; Maru, Hitesh M. (University of Nairobi, Nairobi,Africa Mental Health Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya,Uiversity of Bristol, England, UK, 2008)
      Substance abuse co-morbidity with psychiatric disorders is common and has been widely reported, except in Kenya. This study aimed to determine the prevalence, pattern and socio-economic burden of a dual diagnosis of substance ...

    • Partners and clients of female sex workers in an informal urban settlement in Nairobi, Kenya 

      Ngugi, Elizabeth N; Benoitb, C; Hallgrimsdottir, H; Jansson, M; Roth, E A (Department of Community HeaLth, College of HeaLth Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012-01)
      This paper compares and contrasts number of partners and condom use behaviour for female sex workers and a sample of women working in other economic activities, with both samples drawn from the large informal settlement ...

    • Species distribution and antifungal sensitivity patterns of vaginal yeasts 

      Mutua, F.; Revathi, G.; Machoki, J.M. (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi,, 2010)
      Objectives: To identify yeast isolates in vaginal specimens to species level and determine their antifungal susceptibility patterns. Design: Cross-sectional laboratory-based study. Setting: The Aga Khan University ...

    • Genital ulcer disease treatment for reducing sexual acquisition of HIV 

      Mutua, Florence M; M’Imunya, James Machoki; Wiysonge, Charles Shey (2012)
      Genital ulcer disease by virtue of disruption of the mucosal surfaces may enhance HIV acquisition. Genital ulcer disease treatment with resolution of the ulcers may therefore contribute in reducing the sexual acquisition ...

    • Cancers in children younger than age 16 years in kenya 

      Mwanda O Walter. (Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1999)
      Objective: To determine the number of cancers seen in six months in children aged below sixteen years and to look for any associations with breastfeeding, parental ages, smoking, water availability and consanguinity. ...

    • Impairment of CD1d-restricted Natural Killer T cells in chronic HIV-1 clade C infection 

      Mureithi, Marianne W.; Cohen, Kristen; Moodley, Ramona; Poole, Danielle; Mncube, Zenele; Kasmar, Anne; Moody, D. Branch; Goulder, Philip J.R.; Walker, Bruce D.; Altfeld, Marcus; Ndung’u, Thumbi (2010)
      Recent studies suggest that Natural Killer T (NKT) cells play a role in early antiviral pathogenesis and have been shown to play a critical role in protective immunity to many infections observed in immunocompromised i ...

    • Why patients go the traditional healers 

      Katz, S. H.; Kimani, Violet N. (Department of Community Health Faculty of Medicine, University of Nairobi, 1982-03)
      Even in cines where western medicine is accessible and available patients consult traditional medical practitioners (waganga), often postponing or dis¬continuing medical treatment to do so (1,2). A large measure of the ...

    • Exposure to HIV-1-encoded Toll-like receptor 8 ligands enhances monocyte response to microbial encoded Toll-like receptor 2/4 ligands 

      Mureithi, Marianne W; Chang, J Judy; Lifson, Jeffrey D; Ndung’u, Thumbi; Altfeld, Marcus (2010)
      Background: Chronic HIV-1 infection is characterized by high levels of persistent immune activation. Both HIV-1-encoded Toll-like receptor 7/8 (TLR7/8) ligands and TLR ligands encoded by products of microbial translocation ...

    • T Cell memory response to pneumococcal protein antigens in an area of high pneumococcal carriage and disease 

      Mureithi, Marianne W; Finn, Adam; Ota, Martin O; Zhang, Qibo; Davenport, Victoria; Mitchell, Timothy J; Williams, Neil A; Adegbola, Richard A; Heyderman, Robert S (2008)
      Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of vaccine-preventable disease worldwide. Pneumococcal protein antigens are currently under study as components of potential vaccines that offer protection against multiple ...

    • Burkitt's lymphoma: the initial defining characteristics 

      Mwanda O Walter. (Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 2004)
      Objectives: To put together salient historical, geographical and biological characteristics of Burkitt's lymphoma. Data Sources: Burkitt's lymphoma study data gathered over a ten year study, other publications, original ...