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Microbial Safety of Street Food in Industrial Area, Nairobi
(University of Nairobi,, 2012)
Street food play a significant role in feeding urban population with cheap accessible and nutritious foods. Most street foods vendors are not trained on food hygiene and safety........
The plight of minority shareholders under the companies bill 2010: Oppressed or simply abandoned and forgotten?
(University of Nairobi,, 2012)
Comparison of GPS TEC variations with IRI-2007 TEC prediction at equatorial latitudes during a low solar activity (2009–2011) phase over the Kenyan region
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
This work presents an analysis of the Total Electron Content (TEC) derived from the International GNSS Service (IGS) receivers at Malindi (mal2: 2.9oS, 40.1oE, dip −26.813o), Kasarani (rcmn: 36.89oE, 1.2oS, dip −23.970o), ...
Preliminary investigation of contractile activity of Ricinus communis and Euclea divinorum extracts on isolated rabbit uterine strips
(University of Nairobi, 2012-07)
Ricinus communis and Euclea divinorum of the family Euphorbiaceae and Ebenaceae, respectively, are traditionally used by Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in Machakos district of Kenya to induce or augment labor, manage ...
Indigenous Knowledge and folk use of a polyherbal antimalarial by the Bayang Community, South West Region of Cameroon
(2012)
Nefang is a polyherbal preparation constituted of the leavesof six plants and the bark of one of these,used
traditionally for the treatment of malaria by the Bayang community, South West Region of Cameroon. Since ...
Breast cancer diagnosis in a resource poor environment through a collaborative multidisciplinary approach: the Kenyan experience
(2012)
The majority of women with breast cancer in Kenya present with node-positive (stage II) or locally advanced Q7 disease (stage IIIB). Diagnosis is made on fine needle aspirate cytology and treatment is with surgery if ...
Low-frequency nevirapine resistance at multiple sites may predict treatment failure in infants on nevirapine-based treatment.
(University of Nairobi., 2012-07)
BACKGROUND:
Resistance commonly arises in infants exposed to single-dose nevirapine (sdNVP) for prevention of mother to child transmission. Although K103N and Y181C are common following sdNVP, multiple other mutations ...
Holistic Healing: An Analytical Review of Medicine-men in African Societies
(2012-06)
Since the advent of modernity and Christianity in Africa, indigenous African holistic healing, and especially its psychological aspect, has been given negative publicity. This article examines ways in which African traditional ...