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Traditional herbal eye medicine in Kenya.
(1994)
A study was conducted in Kenya on 16 traditional healers in order to obtain information about their knowledge of eye conditions, the herbal medicines they used, and their indications for referral to ophthalmologists. ...
Etiology of secondary glaucoma at university clinics in Munich and Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 1995-08)
Glaucoma is one of the most common blinding diseases worldwide. For early detection and treatment of this insidious ailment investigations of risk factors are necessary, most of which require extensive technically demanding ...
Post kala-azar uveitis
(1980)
Three patients who developed bilateral anterior uveitis at the end of, or soon after, the apparently successful treatment of visceral leishmaniasis are described. The uveitis gave rise to secondary glaucoma in 2 of the ...
Coagulase-negative staphylococci in normal and chronically inflamed conjunctiva
(University of Nairobi, 1995-12)
This study examines the prevalence of coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species in normal and mildly inflamed conjunctiva, their sensitivity to antibiotics, and their relationship to the remaining flora.
PATIENTS AND ...
Human immunodeficiency virus-related microvasculopathy and Kaposi's sarcoma: a case-control study.
(University of Nairobi, 1995-07)
Ocular microangiopathic syndrome including retinal and conjunctival abnormalities is frequently found in patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) disease. Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is the most frequent neoplasia ...
[No detection of mycoplasma in 205 conjunctival swabs]
(1994)
Mycoplasma is known to cause pulmonary and urogenital infections in humans. A pathogenicity for the human eye never has been assessed, although they have been observed in the peripheral eye in a few cases of acute and ...
Early pars plana vitrectomy without buckling procedure in cytomegalovirus retinitis-induced retinal detachment
(1995)
BACKGROUND:
Retinal detachments induced by cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis can often be treated successfully with a buckling procedure combined with vitrectomy and silicone oil instillation, but this technique yields ...
Ophthalmia neonatorum in Nairobi, Kenya: the roles of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis
(University of Nairobi,, 1986-05)
Among 149 consecutive infants with ophthalmia neonatorum in Nairobi, Neisseria gonorrhoeae was recovered from 43%, Chlamydia trachomatis from 13%, and both microorganisms from 4%. Three of five isolates of C. trachomatis ...
Strategy for examination and therapy of mycotic keratitis
(University of Nairobi, 1993-03)
BACKGROUND:
Keratomycosis still represents a major problem in ophthalmology because of diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. This is caused by difficult clinical differentiation and problems in microbiological analysis ...
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and type 2 seroprevalence in cornea donors.
(University of Nairobi, 1994-05)
Routine screening of cornea donors for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has been established and has reduced the risk of HIV-1 transmission to a minimum. Screening for HIV-2 is less common. We evaluated 100 ...