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Effects of a prescribed dry season burn on a bushed East African grassland at Kiboko, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi,, 1985)
The African Perception
(1985)
Study of delusions in Kenyan schizophrenic patients diagnosed using a set of research diagnostic criteria
(1982-09)
Eighty 'psychotic' Kenyan patients of African origin were screened using the New Haven Schizophrenic Index (NHSI). Fifty-one of these (64%) were found positive. Delusions were found to be significantly more common (P less ...
Schistosoma mansoni: common antigens on adult worm teguments and cercariae detected by immunodiffusion
(University of Nairobi, 1981)
Of 15 serum samples (from patients infected with Schistosoma mansoni) examined by immunodiffusion, 7 gave a positive antigen-antibody reaction with a cholate extract of adult worm teguments. The 7 sera also reacted with a ...
The isolation and identification of leishmanial parasites from domestic dogs in the Machakos District of Kenya, and the possible role of dogs as reservoirs of kala-azar in East Africa.
(University of Nairobi, 1980)
Of 288 sick and emaciated dogs from homesteads in the Machakos District of Kenya, where human kala-azar cases exist, 2 were found to be infected with Leishmania. The leishmanial strain isolated from one of the dogs was ...
Life events and depression in a Kenyan setting
(1981-08)
Thirty Kenyan patients of black African origin undergoing treatment for clinical depression in Nairobi, and 40 matched non-psychiatrically disturbed controls in the community were studies for life events using the Brown-Harris ...
Psychiatry in Kenya: yesterday, today and tomorrow.. An overview.
(1980-09)
The development of psychiatry in Kenya has passed through three stages with considerable overlap - primitive/non-scientific, humanistic and scientific. These stages are similar to those in the development of psychiatry in ...