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Three day oral course of Augmentin to treat chancroid.
(1986)
Amoxycillin and clavulanic acid (Augmentin; Beecham Research Laboratories) was used to treat patients with bacteriologically proved chancroid in three different dose regimens. A single dose of Augmentin (amoxycillin 3 g, ...
Syphilis Control During Pregnancy: Effectiveness And Sustainability Of A Decentralized Program.
(University of Nairobi, 2001)
OBJECTIVES:
This study sought to assess the performance, effectiveness, and costs of a decentralized antenatal syphilis screening program in Nairobi, Kenya.
METHODS:
Health clinic data, quality control data, and ...
Systematic analysis of STD control: an operational model.
(University of Nairobi, 1998-07)
BACKGROUND:
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) enhance HIV transmission, and improved management of STD in primary health care decreases HIV incidence. In resource poor countries, those responsible for planning and ...
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing and phenotyping of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated from patients with ophthalmia neonatorum in Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 1985-09)
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, auxotyping-serotyping, and plasmid analysis were performed on 41 ocular isolates, 7 nasopharyngeal isolates, and 18 cervical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae obtained during a recent ...
Declining syphilis prevalence in pregnant women in Nairobi since 1995: another success story in the STD field?
(1999)
Untreated maternal syphilis during pregnancy will cause adverse pregnancy outcomes in more than 60% of the infected women. In Nairobi, Kenya, the prevalence of syphilis in pregnant women of 2.9% in 1989, showed a rise to ...
Genital infections in parent of infants with ophthalmia neonatorum in Nairobi, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1983)
Single-dose kanamycin therapy of gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum
(University of Nairobi,, 1984-12)
117 infants with gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum, including 27 with infections due to penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae, were treated as outpatients with five different regimens of single-dose intramuscular ...
Advances in the diagnosis and management of chancroid
(University of Nairobi,, 1986-09)
Improved technologies for the cultural diagnosis of chancroid have resulted in increased interest in the management and control of genital ulcer disease. New treatment regimens have been identified, and new control strategies ...
A comparison of single dose spectinomycin with 5 days of trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole for the treatment of chancroid
(University of Nairobi, 1987)
Herpes simplex virus in clinically suspected chancroid in Nairobi, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi,, 1984-03)
PIP:
Of 110 males selected for review with possible chancroid, 96 were clinically diagnosed as having chancroid, 7 as having herpetic lesions, and 7 as having syphilis. Of the 96 patients diagnosed clinically as chancroid, ...