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Renal clearance of pentavalent antimony (sodium stibogluconate)
(1980)
Kenyan kala-azar is sometimes unresponsive to a standard course of sodium stibogluconate. The renal excretion of sodium stibogluconate was therefore studied in patients with kala azar and in volunteers; both urine and serum ...
Medical care in a tropical national reference and teaching hospital: outline study of cost-effectivenees
(1978)
During a 28-day prospective audit the cost-effectiveness of treatment in three types of medical wards in a large tropical teaching hospital was assessed. Patients with chronic diseases such as rheumatic heart disease were ...
Chronic splenomegaly in Nairobi, Kenya. I. Epidemiology, malarial antibody and immunoglobulin levels
(1987)
Chronic splenomegaly in 131 Kenyan patients was investigated at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi. Patients were allocated to diagnostic groups on the basis of clinical, haematological, parasitological, histological, ...
Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis in Kenya: an assessment of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
(1985)
Sera from 124 adult Kenyan patients with chronic splenomegaly and from 93 geographically matched controls without splenomegaly were tested for evidence of Schistosoma mansoni infection by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ...
Immunoglobin M and malarial antibody levels in hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly
(1986)
In a study of chronic splenomegaly in Kenya, hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly, our preferred name for tropical splenomegaly syndrome, was diagnosed in 38 patients. This diagnosis was based on exclusion of other conditions ...
The estimation of population microdata by using data from small area statistics and samples of anonymised records
(1998)
"Traditionally, estimates of the number of people in small areas (the smallest geographical units for which data are available) have been disaggregated only by age and sex. More recently, much research effort has been ...
Multiregional population analysis: the accounting approach
(1979)
The concepts and methods of demographic accounting applied to multiregional population analysis are summarized with the illustrations drawn from a recently constructed set of accounts for the East Anglia and South East ...
Assessment of some shock absorbing insoles
(1986)
Due to the increase in prescription of insoles to relieve symptoms due to skeletal shocks at heel strike a pilot study was initiated to look at some materials used for this purpose. Five materials were examined (Plastazote, ...
What do you want from the 2001 census? Results of an ESRC/JISC survey of user views
(1998)
"The author describes the results of a survey of user views about the next Census of Population in the United Kingdom, to be held in 2001. Some 140 respondents reported their views, which included strong support for a ...
A simulation of the transmission of HIV and AIDS in regional populations within the United Kingdom
(1994)
"The spread of HIV-1 in the United Kingdom is simulated by a model which integrates behavioural and epidemiological processes within a multi-regional population projection framework and represents the spatial heterogeneities ...