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Aflatoxin Binders in Foods for Human Consumption-Can This be Promoted Safely and Ethically?
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Aflatoxins continue to be a food safety problem globally, especially in developing regions. A significant amount of effort and resources have been invested in an attempt to control aflatoxins. However, these efforts have ...
Characterization of Major Ion Chemistry and Hydro-Geochemical Processes in Mt. Elgon Trans-Boundary Aquifer and Their Impacts on Public Health
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
There is a gradual paradox shift from the utilization of surface water to groundwater in both urban and rural Kenya. This is because surface water is both diminishing in quantity due to climate variability and deteriorating ...
An overview of groundwater and sanitation challenges in Kisumu City, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
The sub-surface is used in most parts of Africa as a repository of human waste and as a source of groundwater through pit latrines and shallow wells respectively. The wells provide freshwater to millions of people in Africa ...
Characteristics And Production Constraints Of Smallholder Tomato Production In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Artisanal fishing supports breeding of malaria mosquitoes in Western Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
BACKGROUND:
Everyday hundreds of people, mainly men, set out to take part in a vibrant artisanal capture fishing (ACF) industry on Lake Victoria. It is not known whether actions of artisanal fishers, in their unrelenting ...
Brewers' spent grain in adsorption of aqueous Congo Red and malachite Green dyes: Batch and continuous flow systems.
(University, 2019)
Sorption of Congo Red (CR) and Malachite Green (MG) dyes currently used in pigments and clothing industries were investigated using brewers' spent grain (BSG) from a local brewery. Adsorption increased with a higher adsorbent ...
A search for snail-related answers to explain differences in response of Schistosoma mansoni to praziquantel treatment among responding and persistent hotspot villages along the Kenyan shore of Lake Victoria
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Following a four-year annual praziquantel treatment campaign the resulting prevalence of S. mansoni was seen to differ among individual villages along the Kenyan shore of Lake Victoria. We have investigated possible inherent ...
Assessment of the prevalence of Theileria lestoquardi in sheep from the Sudan using serological and molecular methods.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Malignant theileriosis of sheep and goats caused by Theileria lestoquardi is considered to be among the most important tick borne diseases in the Sudan. Information on the prevalence of the disease in different parts of ...
Theileriosis in Mountain Bongo Repatriated to Kenya: a Clinical and Molecular Investigation.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Mountain bongo (Tragelaphus euryceros isaaci) from Kenya were exported to zoological institutions in North America and Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. In the following 20-30 years bongo numbers declined in Kenya and the ...
Constraints And Solutions For Groundwater Development, Supply And Governance In Urban Areas In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Based on a five-town case-study cohort in Kenya, a conceptual framework has been developed to enable the formulation of holistic and effective strategies that encompass the national aspirations and regional to global ...