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Isolation and characterization of bovine parainfluenza type 3 virus from cattle in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1973)
All seven isolates recovered from respiratory disease in a herd of cattle were parainfluenza type 3. The increase in HI antibody titres between the acute phase and the convalescent phase of the disease suggested that it ...
Isolation of a herpes-type virus from some tumours of bovine original.
(University of Nairobi, 1972)
In a survey of tumours occurring in cattle at the Kenya Meat Commission, Athi River Abattoir, twenty-five tumours were examined for viruses. Eight of ten tumours from the urinary bladder and one of ten tumours from the ...
Systemic bovine mucormycotic infection - a case report.
(University of Nairobi, 1974)
A cow which had aborted at 5 months of pregnancy was anorexic and emaciated and developed fluid diarrhoea. Treatment with intravenous glucosaline and chloramphenicol was unsuccessful, and the animal was killed. At the ...
Protein-calorie malnutrition: a study of red blood cell and serum enzymes during and after crisis.
(University of Nairobi, 1976)
Studies were with 12 children, 0.5 to 4 years old, with kwashiorkor and given milk, eggs, sugar and vitamins. Dietary treatment increased to normal the initial low values of glutathione-NADPH reductase, glutathione peroxidase, ...
Mitochondrial oxidation rates and enzyme activities in the liver and brain of vitamin B12-deficient baboons
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
Brain and liver samples were taken from 7 adult male Papio anubis after 32 months on a vitamin B-12 deficient diet of starch, sucrose, heated soya bean meal, cellulose, maize oil, mineral and vitamin supplements and ...
Tryptophan metabolism in baboons: effect of riboflavin and pyridoxine deficiency
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
Adult male baboons were given an adequate artificial diet to appetite or the same diet without riboflavin or pyridoxine; a further group were pair-fed with those on the deficient diets. In baboons deprived of pyridoxine ...
Serum and liver lipids in normal baboons: effect of different carbohydrate diets.
(University of Nairobi, 1974)
Measurements were made on male baboons of 5 to 11 kg given for 9 months a natural diet, a sucrose diet, or a starch diet. In baboons on the natural diet total serum lipid was 458, triglycerides 55, total cholesterol 86.3, ...
Bovine erythrocytic, granulocytic and macrophage colony formation in culture. A preliminary report
(University of Naitrobi, 1978-07)
Bovine erythrocytic colonies containing up to 300 cells each were produced by using a plasma clot technique with five percent CO2 at 37 degrees C. with high humidity and 2.5 units of sheep step III erythropoietin per ...
Bovine granulocyte/macrophage and erythroid colony culture: characteristics of the colonies and the assay systems
(University of Nairobi., 1979-10)
Bovine bone marrow granulocyte/macrophage colonies were cultured in vitro in methyl cellulose and in plasma clots using bovine endotoxin-stimulated serum as a source of colony stimulating activity. The endotoxin-stimulated ...
Pregnancy care and delivery management for patients with rheumatic heart diseases
(1979)
cute rheumatic fever (ARF) is an illness caused
by a reaction to a bacterial infection with group
A streptococcus. It causes an acute, generalised
inflammatory response and an illness that targets
specific parts of the ...