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A Duo 4-Plex Real Time PCR for Detection of Eight Tick-Borne Zoonoses in Kenya
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2019-03-06)
Ticks harbor multiple pathogens, most of which can be transmitted to hu mans. The ensuing zoonoses display non-specific symptoms that make defin itive diagnosis difficult. We report here the development and evaluation of ...
Clinical and Host Related Factors Influencing Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Bumula Sub County, Bungoma County in Kenya
(Academia, 2019-07-07)
Robert Shihuzire Magomere, , Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious bacterial disease caused by bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Globally 9.6 million people fell ill with TB and 1.5 million died from the disease in 2014. ...
Holistic: Care an Urgent Need for Cervical Cancer Patients in Kenya
(Science Publishing Group, 2019-05-06)
Holistic health care is an integrated approach to healthcare that treats the whole person, not simply symptoms and disease. Mind and body are integrated and inseparable. In cancer care, this approach has been actualized ...
Iron Deficiency is Prevalent among HIV-Infected Kenyan Adults and is Better Measured by Soluble Transferrin Receptor than Ferritin
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2018-08-02)
Iron deficiency (ID) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection frequently coexist. Little data exist on ID in HIV-infected individuals, partly because the iron marker ferritin is altered by inflammation common in ...
Assessment of Health Related Quality of Life in Cervical Cancer Patients in Western Kenya
(Science Publishing Group, 2019-01-17)
Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is an important health outcome in the holistic management of patients especially those suffering from life limiting conditions such as cervical cancer. In Kenya, Cervical cancer is ...
Ancient DNA Reveals a Multistep Spread of the First Herders into Sub-Saharan Africa
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019-07-05)
How food production first entered eastern Africa ~5000 years ago and the extent to which people moved with livestock is unclear. We present genome-wide data from 41 individuals associated with Later Stone Age, Pastoral ...
Prevalence of human papillomavirus in women with invasive cervical carcinoma by HIV status in Kenya and South Africa
(Wiley, 2011)
Data on the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) types in cervical carcinoma in women with HIV are scarce but are essential to elucidate the influence of immunity on the carcinogenicity of different HPV types, and the ...
Modeling of liver cancer risk factors and dynamics at community level
(Hikari, 2017)
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a malignant cancer of the liver arising from uncontrolled multiplication of the abnormal liver cells. It is an ignored public health condition where patients come late to the hospital at ...