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In vitro immunization of rat spleen lymphocytes with Forssman glycosphingolipid antigen and the generation of a monoclonal antibody
(University of Nairobi, 1991-03)
A procedure for in vitro immunization of splenic lymphocytes with a glycolipid antigen is described. Culture medium supernatant of ConA- and PHA-stimulated spleen cells and that of Con A-stimulated human Jurkat T cell line ...
Mucocutaneous manifestations of lymphomas and leukemias in black Kenyan children.
(University of Nairobi, 1995-04)
BACKGROUND:
Childhood leukemia and lymphoma are common problems in Tropical Africa, including Kenya. Studies done in Western populations indicate that 25-50% of patients with leukemia and lymphoma have specific or ...
Current drug therapy of systemic mycoses: a review.
(University of Nairobi,, 1995)
The frequency of systemic fungal infections have increased significantly in the past decade. Opportunistic systemic fungal infections are increasingly posing difficult management challenges to the clinician. To the aid of ...
The Kenyan Luo migration study: observations on the initiation of a rise in blood pressure
(1990)
OBJECTIVE:
To demonstrate the magnitude, timing, and cause of changes in blood pressure that occur in migrants from a low blood pressure population on moving to an urban area.
DESIGN:
A controlled longitudinal ...
Serological evidence of arboviral infections among humans of coastal Kenya
(1991)
A serosurvey was conducted during September 1987 for evidence of human arboviral infections in the Coast Province of Kenya. Sera were collected from 1624 outpatients at three hospitals and tested for antibody to eight ...
Physical Fitness, Growth And Appetite Of Kenyan School Boys With Hookworm, Trichuris Trichiura And Ascaris Lumbricoides Infections Are Improved Four Months After A Single Dose Of Albendazole.
(University of Nairobi, 1993-06)
We studied physical fitness with the Harvard Step Test, growth, and appetite in primary school boys infected with hookworm (96% baseline prevalence), Trichuris trichiura (98% prevalence) and Ascaris lumbricoides (41% ...
Reproductive Biology Knowledge, And Behaviour Of Teenagers In East, Central And Southern Africa: The Zimbabwe Case Study.
(University of Nairobi, 1995-11)
Sexuality in the teenager is often complicated by unplanned/unwanted pregnancy, abortion and the risks of STDs including AIDS. There is therefore a need for improved understanding of factors affecting adolescent sexuality ...
Socio-demographic and gynaecological variables of maternal mortality in a Kenyan subdistrict: January 1981-September 1988.
(1990)
A study on institutional maternal mortality in Thika subdistrict is presented for the period January 1981 through September 1988. There were 86,248 live births in the various government and private institutions in the ...
Prospective controlled study of post-transfusion hepatitis after cardiac surgery in a large referral hospital in India.Live
(1992)
We studied the risk of post-transfusion hepatitis (PTH) in recipients of blood collected from voluntary donors screened for HBsAg. Two hundred and fifty patients without any previous history of liver disease or transfusion ...
Genotype determination of hepatitis C virus from northern India: identification of a new subtype.J Med Virol.
(1996)
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) shows substantial nucleotide sequence diversity distributed throughout the viral genome, with many variants showing only 68-79% overall sequence homology. This has led to problems in diagnosis of ...