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Acrodermatitirelationships Of Schistosoma Haematobium, Hookworm And Malarial Infections And Metrifonate Treatment To Growth Of Kenyan School Children.s Enteropathica: Case Report And Review Of The Literature.
(University of Nairobi, 1985-11)
Relationships of S. haematobium, hookworm and malarial infections to growth 6 months after metrifonate treatment were studied in Kenyan primary school children in an area where poor growth, S. haematobium and hookworm were ...
A method of constructing an index of obesity
(University of Nairobi, 1985-09)
Body density data obtained from underwater weighing, of 458 children and adults aged from 6 to 51 years, in combination with weight (W) and stature (S), have been used to estimate percent body fat (% BF). A model for an ...
Neuronal effects of experimentally induced hydrocephalus in newborn rats.
(1985)
To determine the effects of increased cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure on neuronal morphology, obstructive hydrocephalus was induced by injecting kaolin into the fourth ventricle and cisterna magna of 1-day-old rats. The ...
Sympathetic blockade cannot explain bronchospasm following interscalene brachial plexus block.
(1985)
No abstract available.
Salmonella typhimurium outbreak at Kenyatta National Hospital (1985).
(1985)
A total of 560 Salmonellae species were isolated from Jan-Dec 1985. Of these, 347 (62%) were from blood cultures, 180 (32%) from stools and 33 (6%) were from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and other body aspirates. S. typhimurium ...
Antihypertensive effectiveness of terazosin: a new long-acting alpha-adrenergic inhibitor
(University of Nairobi, 1985-09)
Eighteen patients ages 35-70 years (mean +/- SEM 58 +/- 2) with poorly controlled hypertension on various regimens, participated in the present studies. After a 4-week placebo-controlled lead-in period, 12 patients were ...
Birthweights of infants of teenage mothers in Nairobi.
(1985)
Teenage pregnancies lower average birthweight. In the NBS, teenage mothers had significantly lower average birthweight of 2 920 +/- 553 g compared with 3 133 +/- 533 g among women in the general population. A high rate of ...
Microcystic adenoma of the pancreas with myoepithelial cells. A hitherto undescribed morphologic feature.
(University of Nairobi,, 1985-07)
A case of microcystic adenoma (glycogen-rich cystadenoma) of the exocrine pancreas in a 62-year-old white female presenting with adult-onset diabetes mellitus is reported. Clinical, histopathologic, and ultrastructural ...
Response of Plasmodium falciparum to dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors in Malindi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1985)
The response of Plasmodium falciparum isolates to dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors (DHFRI) was examined in Malindi, Kenya. All 20 infected children treated with pyrimethamine/sulphadoxine responded. In contrast, after ...
Antagonism of sulfadoxine and pyrimethamine antimalarial activity in vitro by p-aminobenzoic acid, p-aminobenzoylglutamic acid and folic acid
(University of Nairobi, 1985-01)
The activity of pyrimethamine and sulfadoxine against two strains of Plasmodium falciparum has been studied in vitro by a radioisotopic technique. Low level antagonism of pyrimethamine resulted from the inclusion of ...