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Impact of Four Years of Annual Mass Drug Administration on Prevalence and Intensity of Schistosomiasis among Primary and High School Children in Western Kenya: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.

Abudho, Bernard O; Ndombi, Eric M; Guya, Bernard; Carter, Jennifer M; Riner, Diana K; Kittur, Nupur; Karanja, Diana M S; Secor, Evan W; Colley, Daniel G (The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2018-03-12)

Schistosomiasis remains a major public health problem in Kenya. The World Health Organization recommends preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel (PZQ) to control morbidity due to schistosomiasis. Morbidity is considered ...
Impact of processing methods on microbial load of reared and wild-caught edible crickets (Scapsipedus icipe and Gryllus bimaculatus) in Kenya

JW Gatheru, FM Khamis, FLO Ombura, J Nonoh, CM Tanga, J Maina, SA Mohamed, S Subramanian, S Ekesi, KKM Fiaboe (Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2019-07-10)

The microbial composition of farmed and wild Scapsipedus icipe and Gryllus bimaculatus is presented. The aim of this study is to determine the microbial load of the two cricket species and evaluate the efficiency of ...
Incidence of road traffic crashes and pattern of injuries among commercial motorcyclists in Naivasha Town

Cholo Wilberforce Odiwuor, Esther Nyamusi, Wilson Odero (International Journal of Applied Research, 2015)

Commercial Motorcycling has become a popular mode of transportation in Kenya, in both rural and urban areas since early 1990’s, but traced to 1960s. In Kenya, however, its related injuries cause significant morbidity and ...
Increased severe anemia in HIV-1-exposed and HIV-1-positive infants and children during acute malaria

Were, T; Otieno, Richard O; Ouma, Collins; Ong'echa, JM; Kelle, Christopher C; Waindi, Eliud N; Michaels, Marian G; Day, Richard D; Vulule, John M; Perkins, DJ (AIDS, 2005)

Increased severe anemia in HIV-1-exposed and HIV-1-positive infants and children during acute malaria
Influence of blood group, Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and Haemoglobin genotype on Falciparum malaria in children in Vihiga highland of Western Kenya

Jafaralli Sande Ahmed, Bernard Guyah, Mark Kilongosi Webale, Nathan Shaviya Mufyongo, Elly Munde, Collins Ouma (BioMed Central, 2020-07-09)

Genetic diversity of ABO blood, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency and haemoglobin type and their ability to protect against malaria vary geographically, ethnically and racially. No study has been carried ...
Injuries in developing countries: policy response needed now

Anthony B Zwi, Sam Forjuoh, Shiva Murugusampillay, Wilson Odero, Charlotte Watts (Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1996-11)

How important are injuries? The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that injuries will be responsible for more deaths, morbidity and disability combined than communicable diseases by the year 2020. Injuries currently ...
Innovative approaches to application of information technology in disease surveillance and prevention in Western Kenya

Wilson Odero, Joseph Rotich, Constantin T Yiannoutsos, Tom Ouna, William M Tierney (Academic Press, 2007-08-01)

We describe an electronic injury surveillance system that provides data for improving patient care and monitoring injury incidenceand distribution patterns. Patients with injuries visiting a rural Kenyan primary care center ...
Installing and implementing a computer-based patient record system in sub-Saharan Africa: the Mosoriot Medical Record System

Joseph K Rotich, Terry J Hannan, Faye E Smith, John Bii, Wilson W Odero, Nguyen Vu, Burke W Mamlin, Joseph J Mamlin, Robert M Einterz, William M Tierney (BMJ Group, 2003-07-01)

The authors implemented an electronic medical record system in a rural Kenyan health center. Visit data are recorded on a paper encounter form, eliminating duplicate documentation in multiple clinic logbooks. Data are ...
Interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 gene promoter polymorphisms and risk of endemic Burkitt lymphoma

Oduor, Cliff I; Chelimo, Kiprotich; Ouma, Collins; Mulama, David H; Foley, Joslyn; Vulule, John; Bailey, Jeffrey A; Moormann, Ann M (The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2014-09-03)

Overexpression of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and IL-10 in endemic Burkitt lymphoma (eBL) may facilitate tumorigenesis by providing a permissive cytokine milieu. Promoter polymorphisms influence interindividual differences ...
Iron and protein content of priority African indigenous vegetables in the Lake Victoria Basin

MO Abukutsa-Onyango, P Kavagi, P Amoke, FO Habwe (David Publishing Company, Inc., 2010-08-01)

African indigenous vegetables have many nutritional and health benefits that have not been well researched and fully exploited. The objective of this study was to determine iron and protein contents of seven priority ...
Iron content of the formulated East African indigenous vegetable recipes

Florence O Habwe, Mary K Walingo, Mary O Abukutsa-Onyango, Mel O Oluoch (Academic Journals, 2009-12-31)

Nutritional iron deficiency is the common cause of anaemia in developing world. However, Africa is endowed with African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) rich in micronutrients. Surveys within East Africa relate low AIV consumption ...
Isolation and characterization of actinobacteria with potential for control of fusarium spp and colletotrichum kahawae

James Oluoch Nonoh (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, 2007)

Smallholder subsistence farming is important in the production of food crops for basic livelihoods and income generation in rural areas. However, yields have remained low due to high disease, weed and pest incidences. ...
Isolation and characterization of Streptomyces species with antifungal activity from selected national parks in Kenya

James Oluoch Nonoh, Wilber Lwande, Daniel Masiga, K James Presnail, Eric Schepers, Matilda Angela Okech, Richard Bagine, Paul Mungai, Aggrey Bernard Nyende, Hamadi Iddi Boga (African Journal of Microbiology Research, 2010)

Microorganisms and their natural products are potentially important for the biological control of crop diseases without detrimental effects to the environment. In this study, acetonitrile-methanol extracts of 361 ...
Kenya: road-traffic accidents

Wilson Odero (Elsevier, 1997)

RTAs exert a huge burden on the country's economy in terms of vehicle repairs, the treatment of injuries, and compensation claims. The annual economic costs are estimated to have risen from an equivalent of 1.6% of gross ...
Knowledge and behaviour as determinants of anti-malarial drug use in a peri-urban population from malaria holoendemic region of western Kenya

Watsierah, Carren A; Jura, Walter G; Raballah, Evans; Kaseje, Dan; Abong'o, Benard; Ouma, Collins (BioMed Central, 2011-04-20)

The appropriate use of anti-malarial drugs determines therapeutic efficacy and the emergence and spread of drug-resistant malaria. Strategies for improving drug compliance require accurate information about current ...
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of trained traditional birth attendants on HIV/AIDS, Kenya

Z Ngalo Otieno-Ayayo, Seroney GC, K Minnie, Mulaudzi FM (Baraton Interdisplinary Research Journal, 2012-06-02)

HIV and AIDS is a global pandemic with cases being reported from virtually every country in the world. There is a growing awareness in many African countries that the Trained Traditional Birth Attendants (TTBAs) have a ...
Low reliability of home-based diagnosis of malaria in a rural community in western Kenya

Rose Muyoka Kakai, Josephine Nasimiyu, Wilson Odero (2011)

Home-based management of malaria is promoted as a major strategy for improving prompt delivery of effective malaria treatment in Africa. This study aimed to determine the proportion of children who tested positive for ...
Metagenomic analysis of the microbiota in the highly compartmented hindguts of six wood-or soil-feeding higher termites

Karen Rossmassler, Carsten Dietrich, Claire Thompson, Aram Mikaelyan, James O Nonoh, Rudolf H Scheffrahn, David Sillam-Dussès, Andreas Brune (BioMed Central, 2015-12-01)

Termites are important contributors to carbon and nitrogen cycling in tropical ecosystems. Higher termites digest lignocellulose in various stages of humification with the help of an entirely prokaryotic microbiota housed ...
“Methanoplasmatales,” Thermoplasmatales-related archaea in termite guts and other environments, are the seventh order of methanogens

Kristina Paul, James O Nonoh, Lena Mikulski, Andreas Brune (American Society for Microbiology, 2012-12-01)

The Euryarchaeota comprise both methanogenic and nonmethanogenic orders and many lineages of uncultivated archaea with unknown properties. One of these deep-branching lineages, distantly related to the Thermoplasmatales, ...
MIF (macrophage migration inhibitory factor) promoter polymorphisms and susceptibility to severe malarial anemia

Were, T; Awandare, GA; Martinson, JJ; Ouma, C; Davenport, GC; Ong'echa, JM; Wang, W; L, Leng; RE, Ferrell,; R, Bucala,; DJ, Perkins (Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2012)

Severe malarial anemia (SMA) resulting from Plasmodium falciparum infection is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. The innate immune mediator macrophage migration inhibitory factor ...

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