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Multiple Firearm Injury: Case Report and Review of Literature on the Burden of Firearm Injury in Africa
(Proceedings, 8th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, Durban, South Africa, Mar, 2006-03)
BACKGROUND: Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Kenya. Victims may suffer multiple injuries including maxillofacial injuries. In most developing countries RTAs are the leading cause ...
Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2, Genital Ulcers and HIV-1 Disease Progression in Postpartum Women
(2011)
Background
Co-infection with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) has been associated with increased HIV-1 RNA levels and immune activation, two predictors of HIV-1 progression. The impact of HSV-2 on clinical outcomes ...
Filaria dance sign and subclinical hydrocoele in two east African communities with bancroftian filariasis.
(2002)
During population-wide cross-sectional surveys for Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaremia, circulating antigenaemia, and clinical disease in a high and a low endemicity community in East Africa in 1998, a portable ultrasound ...
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of mothers and knowledge of health workers regarding care of the newborn umbilical cord
(1999)
OBJECTIVE: To determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of mothers and the knowledge of health workers regarding care of the newborn umbilical cord. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SUBJECTS: Mothers with infants ...
Resistance to airflow through shelled corn
(1969)
Bulk seed in store is often aerated for preservation purposes. The design of the associated fan and duct system is dependent upon estimation of the pressure difference across the bulk for a given airflow and duct and store ...
Using Nylon Strips to Dispense Mosquito Attractants for Sampling the Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae s.s.
(Entomological Society of America, 2010)
Synthetic versions of human derived kairomones can be used as baits when trapping
host seeking mosquitoes. The effectiveness of these lures depends not only on their attractiveness to
the mosquitoes but also on the medium ...
Control of Bean Rust using Antibiotics Produced by Bacillus and Streptomyces species - Translocation and Persistence in Snap Bean
(2007)
Antibiotic culture filtrates produced by Bacillus (CA5) and Streptomyces spp. were tested for
translocation and persistence when applied on snap beans inoculated with rust (Uromyces appendiculatus) in
greenhouse pot ...
Human Responses to Environmental Change in the Upper Tana During the Holocene." Work-in-Progress Seminar,Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra,1995.
(Elsevier, 1995)
The precolonial trading systems of the East African interior have a great antiquity ml can best be understood by employing a multidisciplinary approach including archaeology, oral traditions, linguistic evidence and ...
The breaking strength and resistance to abrasion of some casting bandages
(1993)
Five plaster and one fiberglass casting bandages available on the Kenyan market
were evaluated for breaking strength and resistance to abrasion. Under the test
conditions, scotchcast was found to be 2.6 times stronger ...
Analysis of dental casts of 6-8- and 12-year-old Kenyan children.
(2000)
Dental plaster casts of 97 6-8-year-old and 173 12-year-old Maasai, Kikuyu, and Kalenjin children were studied. The Kikuyu are Bantu, while Maasai and Kalenjin are Nilo-Hamitic subjects. The variables measured were palatal ...