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Burkitt's lymphoma and emerging therapeutic strategies for EBV and Aids-associated lymphoproliferative diseases in East Africa
(2005)
In 1958, Denis Burkitt was the first to describe a reticulum cell sarcoma of the jaw in children at the Mulago Hospital and Makerere University Scbool of Medicine in Kampala, Uganda, which was later determined to be a ...
Health and demographic surveillance in rural western Kenya: a platform for evaluating interventions to reduce morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases.
(University of Nairobi, 2005-12)
We established a health and demographic surveillance system in a rural area of western Kenya to measure the burden of infectious diseases and evaluate public health interventions. After a baseline census, all 33,990 ...
Bacterial isolates in severely malnourished children at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi.
(2005)
To identify bacterial isolates and determine antibiotic sensitivity pattern in children with severe Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) presenting at the Paediatric Filter Clinic (PFC) of Kenyatta National Hospital ...
Cytotoxic activity of some Tanzanian medicinal plants.
(University of Nairobi, 2005)
Thirty-three aqueous methanolic extracts obtained from thirty plant species, belonging to seventeen families were screened for cytotoxic activity against HeLa (human cervical carcinoma) cells. The ability of the extracts ...
The prevalence of active pulmonary tuberculosis among prisoners at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, Kenya.
(2005)
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of mortality in Kenyan prisons. No systematic studies have been done to determine the prevalence of TB in this population. This study set out to determine the ...
Early pregnancy loss and neonatal deaths associated with Klebsiella pneumonia infection:
(2005)
Recurrent pregnancy loss is a disease of grave psychological and economic concern. The etiology in the vast majority of the cases is unknown or at best poorly understood. Although Klebsiella pneumonia infections have been ...
Essential oil of rynchosia minima DC. from Kenya:
(2005)
The hydrodistilled essential oil (yield, 0.1 %) of semi-dried leaves of Rynchosia minima DC. was analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Twenty-four compounds representing 95.9% of the oil were identified. The major components were found ...
Plasmodium falciparum: evaluation of a quantitative nucleic acid sequence-based amplification assay to predict the outcome of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine treatment of uncomplicated malaria.
(2005-05)
A quantitative nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (QT-NASBA) assay was employed to predict retrospectively the outcome of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) treatment of uncomplicated malaria in children aged <6 years ...
Quality of health care and its effects in the utilisation of maternal and child health services in Kenya. East Afr Med J. 2005 Nov;82(11):547-53.
(University of Nairobi, 2005)
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