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Seroepidemiological survey of Taenia saginata cysticercosis in Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 1996)
A sero-epidemiological study of Taenia saginata cysticercosis was carried out to determine the prevalence and distribution of the infection in three provinces of Kenya. Serum samples and meat inspection records were collected ...
Cancers in children younger than age 16 years in kenya
(1999)
Objective: To determine the number of cancers seen in six months in children aged below sixteen years and to look for any associations with breastfeeding, parental ages, smoking, water availability and consanguinity. ...
Coma scales for children with severe falciparum malaria
(1997-03)
The Blantyre coma scale (BCS) is used to assess children with severe falciparum malaria, particularly as a criterion for cerebral malaria, but it has not been formally validated. We compared the BCS to the Adelaide coma ...
Recovery and identification of Besnoitia and other coccidia from cat faeces around Kabete in Kenya
(1994)
Faecal samples were collected from 50 cats around Kabete, Kenya, and were examined for coccidian oocysts. Oocysts of Besnoitia wallacei (in 2) were recovered for the first time in Kenya. Oocysts of Isospora felis (in 33), ...
Prevalence of Eimeria species in cattle in Kenya
(1990-02)
A total of 620 bovine faecal samples collected from unselected animals brought for post-mortem to the Department of Veterinary Pathology and Microbiology or from animals in the Kabete (Kenya) practice area of the Faculty ...
Urbanization and consumption of petroleum products in Kenya
(Elsevier, 1993)
Kenya's urban population has been growing at 6% per annum in the last 20 years and is expected to account for 25% of the population in the year 2000. This paper analyses the impact of urbanization on the consumption of ...
Effectiveness of chloroquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine combination in the treatment of falciparum malaria in a malaria endemic area of Kenya
(1998)
A study on the comparative efficacy of two antimalarial drugs, namely chloroquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine combination in the treatment of falciparum malaria was carried out in Siaya District, Nyanza Province of Kenya. ...
The new local level politics in East Africa: studies on Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya
(1994)
This research report consists of three studies: Per Tidemand's Ugandan study concentrates on the politics of the new representative local state institutions which emerged in 1986. Andrew Kiondo's Tanzania study focuses on ...
Confronting Dictatorship in Kenya
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991)
Since June 1990, a battle has been raging over political pluralism in
Kenya, On one side is a movement dedicated to restoring multiparty
democracy and freeing a once-vibrant economy that is now staggering
under the ...