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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 ...
Main sources of infection in 145 cases of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis.
(University of Nairobi, 1993-08)
Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) is a combination of conjunctivitis and keratitis induced by an adenovirus that is found especially in eye clinics and in eye hospitals. In Bavaria, EKC represents a common eye disease ...
HIV disease in Africans of high social class
(University of Nairobi, 1993-06)
Pregnancy outcome and placental weights: their relationship to HIV-1 infection.
(University of Nairobi,, 1993-02)
The relationship between placental characteristics, including weight and inflammation, and pregnancy outcome was examined as part of a case control study looking into the impact of maternal HIV-1 infection on pregnancy ...
Knowledge of HIV transmission and risk behaviour in Kenyan health care workers
(University of Nairobi, 1993-07)
In order to determine knowledge of HIV transmission, sexual risk behaviour and perception of risk in African health care workers, 200 employees at the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya, were asked to complete an anonymous ...
The impact of vitamins A,C,E, and selenium compound on prevention of liver cancer in rats
(1993)
A study was initiated to determine the impact of vitamins A, C, E, and selenium compound (Se) on the prevention of liver cancer. Sixty animals were fed a diet with or without these vitamins followed by aflatoxin B treatment ...
Quantitative Assessment Of Oestrogen And Progesterone Receptors On Fine-needle Aspirates And Cryostat Sections Of Breast Carcinomas: How Does This Compare With Biochemical Assays?
(1993-05)
In this study monoclonal antibodies to oestrogen receptors in the ER-ICA kit (Abbott) and to progesterone receptors (Biogenex) were used to determine the presence of those receptors in fine needle aspirates and cryostat ...
The effects of chronic clomipramine and mianserin on the activity of tryptophan hydroxylase in the rat brain
(1993)
The activity of tryptophan hydroxylase was measured in the rat brainstrem and cortex by the rat of in vivo accumulation of 5-hydroxytryptophan after inhibition of aromatic amino acid decarboxylase with 3-hydroxybenzyl-hy ...
Asphyxia of the newborn in east, central and southern Africa.
(University of Nairobi, 1993-07)
Very scanty information is available in East, Central and Southern Africa on the incidence and risk factors associated with asphyxia of the newborn. A multicentre prospective study involving 4267 deliveries in eight countries ...
Cardiovascular features in adolescents and adults with sickle cell anaemia.
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1993-05)
Fifty five sickle cell anaemia (SCA) patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital were studied with a view to elucidating their cardiovascular status. Their age range was 13 to 27 years (median 18.9 years). They comprised ...