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Prevalence of Clostridium difficile infections among Kenyan children with diarrhea.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
BACKGROUND:
Diarrhea causes significant morbidity and mortality among children worldwide. Regions most affected by diarrhea include Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, where antibiotics are in common use and can make ...
A multivalent Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-like particle vaccine capable of eliciting high titers of neutralizing antibodies in immunized rabbits.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is an emerging pathogen and the causative agent of multiple cancers in immunocompromised patients. To date, there is no licensed prophylactic KSHV vaccine. In this study, we ...
Larval species diversity, seasonal occurrence and larval habitat preference of mosquitoes transmitting Rift Valley fever and malaria in Baringo County, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
BACKGROUND:
Baseline information that is essential for determining the areas to target with larval control includes estimates of vector diversity and larval habitat preferences. Due to a lack of such information in ...
EADSG Guidelines: Insulin Storage and Optimisation of Injection Technique in Diabetes Management.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
To date, insulin therapy remains the cornerstone of diabetes management; but the art of injecting insulin is still poorly understood in many health facilities. To address this gap, the Forum for Injection Technique and ...
Occurrence of aflatoxin M1 in raw milk traded in peri-urban Nairobi, and the effect of boiling and fermentation.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Background: Dairy production in Kenya is important and dominated by small-holder farmers who market their produce through small-scale traders in the informal sector. Method: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of ...
Building Pastoralists’ Resilience To Shocks For Sustainable Disaster Risk Mitigation: Lessons From West Pokot County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Most pastoralists’ in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) are adversely affected by climate-change related shocks such as droughts and livestock diseases. These shocks lead to deterioration of livestock quality and even mass death ...
Intercropping Optimizes Soil Temperature and Increases Crop Water Productivity and Radiation Use Efficiency of Rainfed Potato
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Integrating crop species with different photosynthetic pathways has great potential to increase efficiency in the use of scarce resources. In order to tap the resource complementarity emanating from this mix, this study ...
Benefits of protected areas to adjacent communities: the case of Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019-02)
Kenya has ratified several Multilateral Environmental Agreements
(MEAs) such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and
International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES)
and they all emphasize ...
Particle Swarm Optimized Hybrid Kernel-Based Multiclass Support Vector Machine for Microarray Cancer Data Analysis.
(Hindawi, 2019-08)
Determining an optimal decision model is an important but difficult combinatorial task in imbalanced microarray-based cancer classification. Though the multiclass support vector machine (MCSVM) has already made an important ...
Determinants of the outcome on traumatic brain injurypatients at Kenyatta National Hospital
(African Journal of Health Sciences, 2019-01)
INTRODUCTION
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is among the leading causes of admissions in hospitals
globally. TBI has been attributed with significant morbidity, mortality and disability. Most
injuries have mainly been ...