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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome among an urban population in Kenya
(American Diabetes Association, 2012)
OBJECTIVE
Developing countries are undergoing an epidemiologic transition accompanied by increasing burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) linked to urbanization and lifestyle modifications. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster ...
A participatory epidemiological study of major cattle diseases amongst Maasai pastoralists living in wildlife-livestock interfaces in Maasai Mara, Kenya
(Springer Netherlands, 2019)
Livestock-wildlife interactions promote the transmission of a wide range of infectious diseases that constraint livestock production. We used a participatory appraisal approach to find out and rank infectious diseases of ...
Zoonotic pathogen seroprevalence in cattle in a wildlife–livestock interface, Kenya
(Springer US, 2019)
A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of Brucella spp. and Leptospira
spp. and risk factors of exposure in cattle in three zones with varying land use types and wildlife–
livestock ...
Seroprevalence of foot-and-mouth disease virus in cattle herds raised in Maasai Mara ecosystem in Kenya
(Elsevier, 2020)
A cross-sectional study was carried out to determine foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) seroprevalence and identify risk factors of exposure among cattle herds raised in three zones with different types of land use and progressively ...
Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype epidemiology among PCV-10 vaccinated and unvaccinated children at Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, Nairobi County: a cross-sectional study
(Faculty of 1000 Ltd, 2018)
Background: Serotype replacement and emergence of multidrug resistant S.
pneumoniae has exacerbated the need for continuous regional serotype
surveillance especially in the developing world. We investigated S. ...