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Acute Leukaemia in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1972-10)
Acute leukaemia is not as uncommon in equatorial East Africa as has until recently been believed. The acute myelogenous variety is disproportionately common in children and has an unusually frequent chloromatous presentation. ...
Hepatitis B antigen in a rural community in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1973)
A random survey of hepatitis B antigen in a rural community in Kenya is reported. The results showed the development of antigenaemia during the third year of life. The highest prevalence was around 14 years and thereafter ...
Dysfibrinogenaemia and Primary Hepato-Cellular Carcinoma
(University of Nairobi, 1976)
The mechanisms of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis have been evaluated in 28 black adult Africans with primary hepato-cellular carcinoma (HCC). A characteristic pattern of abnormalities has been defined. Dysnbrinogenaemia ...
The effects of the continuous administration of N,N-dimethyl-4-phenylazoaniline (DAB) on the activities and the inducibilities of some drug-metabolizing enzymes in rat liver
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
1) The effect of feeding a relatively low-protein diet containing 0.06 % DAB for 29 weeks on the activity of DAB-azoreductase, nitroreductase (p-nitrobenzoic acid), N-oxidase (N,N-dimethylaniline), N-demethylase (DAB), ...
Clinical and experimental investigation of immune complexes in malaria
(University of Nairobi, 1976-07)
Aotus monkeys infected with quartan malaria (Plasmodium brasilianum) and injected iv with radiolabeled anti-P. malariae IgG and/or normal IgG (no malarial antibodies) showed (a) increased in vivo binding of malarial ...
Nephrotic syndrome in adult Africans in Nairobi
(1972)
The adult nephrotic syndrome as met with in Nairobi is predominantly encountered in young sophisticated African women, most of whom began to use skin-lightening creams containing mercury before the symptomatic onset of ...
Use Of Out-of-plan Services By Medicare Members Of Hip.
(University of Nairobi, 1978)
Use of out-of-plan services in 1972 by Medicare members of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP) is examined in terms of the demographic and enrollment characteristics of out-of-plan users, types of services ...
An outbreak of arsenic and toxaphene poisoning in Kenyan cattle
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
In a case of poisoning involving 70 cattle analysis of specimens obtained during post mortem examination showed that the toxic substances were arsenic and toxaphene. This was consistent with both the clinical and post ...
The genetics of white-eye, a sex-linked mutant of Aedes (Stegomyia) cooki Belkin.
(1977)
A mutant designated white-eye (w) is described from a colony of Aedes cooki. White-eye is sex-linked and recessive and the crossover value with the sex locus is 7.18 +/- 1.38%. The gene w has full penetrance and expressivity ...