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Carrier status for Listeria monocytogenes and other Listeria species in free range farm and market healthy indigenous chickens and ducks.
(2004-10)
BACKGROUND:
Listeria organisms are documented to be zoonotic; one of the sources of infection is the domestic fowl where it could occur as in apparent infection. The carriage of Listeria monocytogenes and other Listeria ...
Self-deception does not explain high-risk sexual behavior in the face of HIV/AIDS: A test from northern Kenya
(2004-10)
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, there is resistance to changing sexual behavior despite survey data indicating high levels of knowledge about HIV transmission patterns and high-risk behavior. Previous explanations for this ...
Development, Survival and Availability of Gastrointestinal Nematodes of Sheep and Pastures in a Semi-arid Area of Kajiado District of Kenya
(2004-08)
A study was carried out on a ranch in the semi-arid area of Kajiado District in Kenya during the period July 2000 to June 2001 to determine the seasonal patterns of development and survival of gastrointestinal nematodes ...
Kenyan Literature: A Call for Discourse
(2004)
The nation we call Kenya did not exist a hundred years ago; it consisted for the
most part of independent tribes before the beginning of the twentieth
century. Today, the descendants of these tribes constitute the bulk ...
Civil Society And The Politics Of Constitutional Reforms In Kenya: A Case Study Of The National Convention Executive Council (NCEC)
(2004)
This paper examines and analyses the role of the National Convention
Executive Council (NCEC) in engaging the Kenyan state for constitutional
reforms. It argues that although NCEC (through mass action) was able to
force ...
The case of Nairobi ,Kenya
(2004)
Urbanisation in Kenya has a long history with urban
agglomeration in the form of trading centres being found
along the Kenyan coast as early as the 9th Century AD
(Obudho 1988: 3) . However, the growth of many urban
centres ...
Use Of Genome Level-informed PCR As A New Investigational Approach For Analysis Of Outbreak-associated Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Isolates.
(University of Nairobi, 2004-05)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain CH, the index isolate linked to a major tuberculosis outbreak associated with high levels of transmissibility and virulence, was characterized by microarray analysis by use of a PCR product ...
Holding the Traveller's Gaze Accountable in Shiva Naipaul's North of South: An African Journey
(2004)
Travelogues are partly based on what is witnessed, observed and noted about the places and people visited and what is already known in advance, mainly from an existing archive. The archive, therefore, is an important element ...
The evolution of modern human behavior in East Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
Genetic evidence suggests an African origin for modern human ANATOMY, and archaeological evidence suggests a sub -Saharan African origin for modern
human BEHAVIOR. Testing the latter hypothesis requires a reliable, precise ...
The effect of economic crisis on youth precariousness in Nairobi. An analysis of itinerary to adulthood of three generations of men and women
(2004)
Since the pioneer analysis of the labour market by the ILO team in the early 1970s, the NUrIP, which
collected about 1,600 biographies among a sample of the Nairobi adult population, is the first to
provide for a ...