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Dengue and west Nile virus transmission in children and adults in coastal Kenya
(American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017-01-01)
Dengue virus (DENV) and West Nile virus (WNV) are important reemerging arboviruses that are underrecognized in many parts of Africa due to lack of surveillance. As a part of a study on flavivirus, alphavirus, and parasite ...
Pneumococcal Vaccine Response After Exposure to Parasites in Utero, in Infancy, or Mid-Childhood
(Pediatrics, 2017-04-04)
ACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of mortality before age 5, but few studies examine details of childhood response to pneumococcal vaccine in
less-developed settings. Although malnutrition, ...
Development of a Real-Time Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction for O'nyong-nyong virus and Evaluation with Clinical and Mosquito Specimens in Kenya
(2017-07-29)
O’nyong-nyong virus (ONNV), an alphavirus closely related to chikungunya virus (CHIKV), has been the documented cause of two large outbreaks in east Africa; however, little is known about the contribution of ONNV to cases ...