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Telavancin in the treatment of invasive Gram-positive infections
(2012)
Telavancin is a newer once-daily lipoglycopeptide with activity against Gram-positive bacteria, including those that are resistant to conventional antibiotics like beta-lactams. The results of recent clinical trials led ...
Bedre vilkår for vildt og biodiversitet i det danske landskab
(University of Nairobi,, 2012)
Psychotic symptoms in Kenya--prevalence, risk factors, and relationship with common mental disorders
(2012)
There have been few epidemiological surveys to establish prevalence and associated risk factors of psychosis in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reports a population-based epidemiological survey in rural Kenya of the prevalence ...
Urban agriculture, social capital and food security in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya
(2012)
Much of the developing world, including Kenya, is rapidly urbanizing. Rising food and fuel prices in recent years have put the food security of the urban poor in a precarious position. In cities worldwide, urban agriculture ...
Genital ulcer disease treatment for reducing sexual acquisition of HIV
(2012)
Genital ulcer disease by virtue of disruption of the mucosal surfaces may enhance HIV acquisition. Genital ulcer disease treatment
with resolution of the ulcers may therefore contribute in reducing the sexual acquisition ...
Audit of Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in Orthopaedic Surgery in Mulago Hospital
(2012)
Background: Prophylactic antibiotics are entrenched in implant
orthopaedic surgery. We conducted a study to determine the use
of prophylactic antibiotics in clean implant orthopaedic surgery in
Mulago hospital.
Methods: ...
Preservation HIV-1-specific IFNγ+ CD4+ T-cell responses in breakthrough infections after exposure to tenofovir gel in the CAPRISA 004 microbicide trial.
(2012-06)
The Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South
Africa 004 trial demonstrated reduction of sexual HIV-1 acquisition
in women using a vaginal microbicide containing tenofovir. A better
understanding of the consequences ...
Risk factors for kerosene stove explosion burns seen at Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
BACKGROUND:
The kerosene stove is a common cooking appliance in lower and middle income households in Kenya and if it explodes, life threatening thermal burn injuries may be sustained by those using the appliance. Women ...