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The dog as a reservoir of visceral leishmaniasis in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1977)
Blood, spleen, liver and kidney of a domestic dog captured in Kacheliba, Rift Valley, Kenya, an area endemic for visceral leishmaniasis, were cultured in NNN diphasic medium. 7 days later the spleen culture contained ...
Visceral leishmaniasis in Kenya: the onset of an epidemic outbreak in the Machakos District of Kenya 1972-1977.
(University of Nairobi, 1978)
In investigations on an outbreak of kala-azar [caused by Leishmania donovani] in Machakos District, Kenya, in 1972-77, the homesteads of patients found suffering with the disease were mapped out for epidemiological studies. ...
Visceral leishmaniasis animal reservoirs in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1978)
Cultures for leishmaniae were made from the tissues of animals in the Baringo and West Pokot districts of Kenya where kala azar is endemic. 219 lizards were examined and 59 were positive. 27 gerbils (Tatera robusta) and ...
Incrimination of the vector of visceral leishmaniasis in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1978)
In investigations in Kenya on the vectors of visceral leishmaniasis [caused by Leishmania donovani] in West Pokot District, adult phlebotomines were collected at resting sites (including termite hills [see preceding ...
Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Kenya: Montenegro skin test in leishmaniasis foci and presumably leishmania-free areas
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
Trials of the Montenegro skin test were made in 7 areas of Kenya in which cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania tropica and transmitted by Phlebotomus pedifer Lewis, Mutinga & Ashford or kala azar caused by L. ...
The isolation and identification of leishmanial parasites from domestic dogs in the Machakos District of Kenya, and the possible role of dogs as reservoirs of kala-azar in East Africa.
(University of Nairobi, 1980)
Of 288 sick and emaciated dogs from homesteads in the Machakos District of Kenya, where human kala-azar cases exist, 2 were found to be infected with Leishmania. The leishmanial strain isolated from one of the dogs was ...