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Detection rate of cryptococcus neoformans in cerebrospinal fluid specimens at Kenyatta national hospital,Nairobi
(1997)
A ten-year retrospective review of laboratory detection of Cryptococcus neoformans in cerebrospinal fluid was undertaken using past laboratory and clinical records at Kenyatta National Hospital. A total of 1462 India-ink ...
Pharmacological activities of gutenburgia cordifolia
(1997)
A methanol extract of Gutenburgia cordifolia showed a greater fall in diastolic than systolic blood pressure in anaesthetised rats. The plant extract produced cardiodepressant activity on isolated rabbit heart and caused ...
Health service pricing reforms in Kenya
(1997)
From 1966, for about 25 years, the Government of Kenya provided health services in public clinics and hospitals free of charge in accordance with its social policy (Republic of Kenya, 1989a). In the 1980s the Government ...
Screening and early detection for prostate cancer.
(1997-10)
Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men. Mortality due to prostate cancer has continued to increase over the past five decades despite all the different options of treatment at the disposal of the urologist, ...
Rational use of antibiotics in neonatal infections
(1997)
Review of the management of neonatal infections is done with the aim of guiding the clinician on appropriate therapy. Minimum investigations should include a white blood cell count including the L:T ratio and a blood ...
Infection with Plasmodium berghei alters benzodiazepine receptor in rat brain
(University of Nairobi, 1997)
The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of malaria infection on benzodiazepine binding in rat brain. Young male Wistar rats were infected with the rodent parasite Plasmodium berghei, while age-matched control ...
HLA-DR 52- and 51-associated DRB1 alleles in Kenya, east Africa.
(University of Nairobi, 1997)
Abstract
The genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are amongst the most polymorphic loci known in the human population. The population genetics of the MHC encoded HLA loci of sub-Saharan Africa are of major ...
Aging and Nutritional Needs
(University of Nairobi,, 1997)
Cellular kinetic and phenotypic heterogeneity in and among Burkitt’s and Burkitt’s-like lymphomas
(1997-06)
This study asks whether the known genotypic heterogeneity within and between endemic or sporadic Burkitt's lymphomas (eBLs and sBLs, n = 10 each), and Burkitt-like lymphomas (BLLs, n-12), is reflected in divergent cytokinetics ...