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Human sleeping sickness in Lambwe Valley. (The present state).
(University of Nairobi, 1980)
A brief account is given of trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma rhodesiense) in the Lambwe Valley, Kenya. The parasite was introduced from the Busoga district of Uganda in the early 1950s and cases of trypanosomiasis, first ...
Biliary Sequelae Of Endoscopic Sphincterotomy.
(University Of Nairobi, 1985-03)
Twenty five patients were reviewed a mean of 36 months after successful endoscopic sphincterotomy for the removal of bile duct stones. All the patients had improved symptomatically but 20% had episodes of mild abdominal ...
Intracuff and "leak-past" pressures of red rubber, latex and p.v.c. tracheal tubes. A laboratory and clinical study.
(1986)
Measurements were made in the laboratory of the changes with time of the intracuff pressure, the leak-past pressure (the airway pressure at which gas begins to leak past the cuff) and the cuff volume for 9.5-mm tracheal ...
B15 heterogeneity in East African Blacks
(University of Nairobi,, 1980-10)
One-hundred-forty-one Blacks (135 unrelated) from Kenya and Tanzania have been tissue-typed (HLA-A, B and C loci) as part of a study of host factors involved in Burkitt's lymphoma and naso-pharyngeal carcinoma. Evidence ...
Some clinicopathologic and prognostic data in malignant lymphomas diagnosed at Kenyatta National Hospital over a 13 year period
(University of Nairobi,, 1988-08)
General approaches to the identification of protective antigens in parasitic diseases.
(University of Nairobi, 1980)
Some of the vaccination procedures which may be used to induce partial or complete immunity to parasitic diseaes are outlined, and the problem of identifying protective antigens is considered with reference to schistosomiasis, ...
The effect of alpha-thalassemia on the level of hybrid hemoglobin variants in heterozygotes
(University of Nairobi, 1986)
The influence of a relative deficiency in α chain production on the amount of Hemoglobins Kenya, P-Nilotic, and Lepore was determined. The level of these hybrid hemoglobins in heterozygotes was correlated to various states ...
Ocular complications in visceral leishmaniasis.
(University of Nairobi, 1983)
Literature on eye lesions associated with visceral leishmaniasis is briefly reviewed, and the results of routine examination of the eyes of 50 leishmaniasis patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya, are presented. ...
The effect of some exogenous co-factors and metal ions on the aerobic metabolism of D-glucose by digitonin-permeabilized Trypanosoma brucei cells.
(University of Nairobi, 1983)
The effect of 3 different incubation media on the rate of pyruvate synthesis from D-glucose metabolism in T. brucei cells permeabilized with 60 /micro/g digitonin/108 trypanosomes was investigated. Pyruvate synthesis was ...
Clinical aspects of sickle cell disease in Nairobi children
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1982)
Children with sickle cell disease in Nairobi come from tribes living in malarial regions of Kenya. The clinical presentation and complications of this disease are described. The symptoms at onset are nonspecific but the ...