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Correlates of age at attainment of developmental milestones in HIV-infected infants receiving early antiretroviral therapy
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Background: Infant HIV-1 infection is associated with impaired neurologic and motor development. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has the potential to improve developmental outcomes but the relative contributions of pre-ART ...
Relationship between anthropometric measures and early electrocardiographic changes in obese rats.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
BACKGROUND:
The degree of cardiovascular function impairment parallels the degree of obesity and obese subjects have abnormal changes on the electrocardiogram (ECG). Early ECG changes in obesity have not been previously ...
An Investigation into the Existence of Fads in the Initial Public Offering Market in Kenya
(2012)
The tested the existence of fad explanation in the IPO market in Kenya. It sought to
examine the price behaviour of IPOs to test whether or not it was consistent with fad
explanation. The research methodology was based ...
Soil physicochemical properties under Acacia senegal varieties in the dryland areas of Kenya
(2011)
Acacia senegal is a multipurpose drought-tolerant tree or shrub legume and is commonly used in agroforestry systems in sub-Saharan Africa for gum arabic production and soil fertility improvement. Despite its wide distribution ...
How to conduct tracer studies of university graduates in Africa: Approaches and experiences
(2002)
This study sought to identify the approaches used in conducting tracer studies in Africa. II is based on 10 tracer studies sponsored By Association of African Universities (AA U) between 1995 and /999. Thefindings indicated ...
Psychiatric morbidity among HIV -infected children and adolescents in a resource-poor Kenyan urban community
(Routledge, 2012)
The course of HIV/AIDS in children has been transformed from an acute to a chronic one with the advent of
Anti-Retroviral Therapy. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and pattern of psychiatric
morbidity ...
Occurrence of injuries of the Maxillofacial Skeleton seen at a Teaching and National Referral Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
(2000)
Objective: To describe the occurrence and aetiologic pattern of maxillofacial bone fractures.
Design: A descriptive retrospective study.
Setting: Kenyatta National Teaching and Referral Hospital, Nairobi.
Subjects: ...
Wandering spleen: case report
(2010)
Wandering spleens are rare clinical entities found more commonly in women aged 20-40 years. We report one such case found in a 24-year-old nulliparous woman who presented with low abdominal pains of sudden onset and ...
A novel 57-kDa merozoite protein of Babesia gibsoni is a prospective antigen for diagnosis and serosurvey of canine babesiosis by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
(2007)
We isolated a novel single copy gene encoding a 57-kDa merozoite protein of Babesia gibsoni (BgP57). The nucleotide sequence of the cDNA was 2387 bp with an open reading frame (ORP) of 1644 bp encoding a 57-kDa predicted ...