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Hand injury: association of handedness with cause and site of injury
(2007)
BACKGROUND: Most people have a dominant hand: right or left. The dominant hand for most purposes is that which is used for writing. The performance, reflex activity and exposure of
these hands differ. Due to this asymmetry, ...
Neurological manifestations following partial excision in spinal meningioma: case report
(2007)
Presented here is a 16-year-old girl who was referred on 30th January 1996 with diagnosis of cord compression with spastic paraplegia with sensory level at T7/T8. CT scan myelogam confirmed soft tissue density mass displacing ...
A Latex agglutination test for capripoxvirus
(Plant Molecular Biology Reporter Vol. 27, pp. 79-85., 2007)
The gene Q13L coding for the Capripoxvirus group specific structural protein P32 was expressed in Escherichia coli using plasmid pGEX-2T as a fusion protein with glutathione-s-transferase and purified on glutathione sepharose ...
Gender, perceptions and behaviour towards health risks associated with urban dairy farming in Dagoretti Division, Nairobi, Kenya.
(2007)
To determine the socio-cultural, economic and environmental factors that encourage urban dairy production and the factors which may predispose the producer, consumer and other handlers to risks associated with dairy farming. ...
Interventions for squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva in HIV-infected individuals (Review)
(Willy Publishers, 2007-02)
Background
Squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva is a rare, slow-growing tumour of the eye, normally affecting elderly men around 70 years
of age. In Africa, however, the disease is different. The incidence is rising ...
Open simple prostatectomy and blood transfusion in Nairobi
(2007-09)
BACKGROUND:
Open simple prostatectomy has long been associated with large blood losses; hence allogeneic blood transfusion in this procedure is a standard practice world over. A review of literature suggests significant ...
Antimalarial activity of some plants traditionally used in Meru district of Kenya.
(2007)
Ten plant extracts commonly used by the Meru community of Kenya were evaluated for the in vitro antiplasmodial, in vivo antimalarial, cytotoxicity and animal toxicity activities. The water and methanol extracts of Ludwigia ...
High uptake of postpartum hormonal contraception among HIV-1-seropositive women in Kenya.
(2007)
The objectives of this study were to determine patterns of contraceptive utilization among sexually active HIV-1-seropositive women postpartum and to identify correlates of hormonal contraception uptake.
The goal of this ...
HIV-1 subtype D infection is associated with faster disease progression than subtype A in spite of similar plasma HIV-1 Loads
(2007)
We investigated the effect of human immunodeficiency virus
type 1 (HIV-1) subtype on disease progression among 145
Kenyan women followed from the time of HIV-1 acquisition.
Compared with those infected with subtype A, ...