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Anemia among Children Exposed to Polyparasitism in Coastal Kenya
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015)
Anemia represents a substantial problem for children living in areas with limited resources and significant parasite burden. We performed a cross-sectional study of 254 Kenyan preschool- and early school-age children in a ...
Effects Associated with Processing Ballast and Waste Oil at Port Reitz, Mombasa-Kenya
(Civil and Environmental Research journal, 2015)
This study was carried out in response to a complaint regarding environmental pollution, arising from the
processing of ballast water and waste oil on the premises of the landlord on Plot No. LR 1192/VI/MN, Port ...
Use of prospective hospital surveillance data to define spatiotemporal heterogeneity of malaria risk in coastal Kenya
(Malaria Journal, 2015)
Background:
Malaria in coastal Kenya shows spatial heterogeneity and seasonality, which are important factors to account for when planning an effective control system. Routinely collected data at health facilities can be ...
Opportunities to improve postpartum care for mothers and infants: design of context-specific packages of postpartum interventions in rural districts in four sub-Saharan African countries
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Background: Postpartum maternal and infant mortality is high in sub-Saharan Africa and improving postpartum care
as a strategy to enhance maternal and infant health has been neglected. We describe the design and selection ...
Serum adiponectin in HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus mono- and coinfected Kenyan injection drug users
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Adiponectin is an important marker of anthropometric profiles of adipose tissue. However, association of adiponectin and adiposity in HIV mono- and co-infected and hepatitis (HCV) injection drug users (IDUs) has not been ...
HIV-1 protease inhibitor drug resistance in Kenyan antiretroviral treatment-naive and -experienced injection drug users and non-drug users
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Although injection drug use drives antiretroviral drug resistance, the prevalence of protease inhibitor (PI) resistance among Kenyan IDUs remains undetermined. We, therefore, explored PI resistance mutations and their ...
Hepatitis B virus sero-profiles and genotypes in HIV-1 infected and uninfected injection and Non-injection drug users from coastal Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Information about HBV sero-markers, infection stages and genotypes in HIV-1 infected and uninfected
injection and non-injection drug users (IDUs) in Kenya remains elusive.
Composition and abundance of deep-water crustaceans in the Southwest Indian Ocean
(Elsevier, 2015)
Expanding coastal fisheries into deeper waters is frequently tabled as an option to increase harvests from
the sea in the Southwest Indian Ocean. In this region, only Mozambique and South Africa have established deep-water ...