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The use of non-standard motorcycle helmets in low-and middle-income countries: a multicentre study

Williams Ackaah, Francis Afukaar, Williams Agyemang, Trinh Thuy Anh, AR Hejar, Ghaffar Abdul, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Hidalgo-Solórzano Elisa, Híjar Martha, Adnan A Hyder, Cristina Inclán-Valadez, Subramaniam Kulanthayan, Robyn Norton, Wilson Odero, Eme T Owoaje, Margie Peden, Krishnan Rajam, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Adesola Oluwafunmilola Sangowawa, Jawaid Shah, Pham Le Tuan, Radin Umar RS, Nguyen Thi Van Anh, Marc Van der Putten, Nitaya Vajanapoom, Nuntavarn Vichit-Vadakan, Kaviyarasu Yellappan, James Yu, Road Traffic Injuries Research Network Multicenter Study Collaborators (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2013-06-01)

The use of non-standard motorcycle helmets has the potential to undermine multinational efforts aimed at reducing the burden of road traffic injuries associated with motorcycle crashes. However, little is known about the ...

Pattern of pedestrian injuries in the city of Nairobi: implications for urban safety planning

Japheths Ogendi, Wilson Odero, Winnie Mitullah, Meleckidzedeck Khayesi (Springer US, 2013-10-01)

Pedestrians are overrepresented in road traffic injuries and deaths in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, yet little research has been done to provide better understanding of the characteristics of pedestrian injuries. ...

EBNA-1 specific effector T cell deletion associated with holoendemic malaria exposure in the etiology of endemic Burkitt’s lymphoma (P3063)

Mulama, David; Chelimo, Kiprotich; Collins, Ouma; Jura, Walter; Otieno, Juliana; Vulule, John; Munz, Christian; Moormann, Ann (American Association of Immunologists, 2013-05-01)

Etiological mechanism of eBL remain largely unknown despite long-standing epidemiological link between malaria and EBV co-infection. Age-dependent deficiency in EBV-specific CD8+ T cell-mediated IFN-γ immunosurveillance ...

Factors in the management of feeding in nursery school children as perceived by their mothers in rural Bondo County, Kenya

Were, Allan R; Kioli, Felix N; Onkware, Kennedy; Onyango, Elizabeth O; Gumo, Sussy; Ouma, Collins (BioMed Central, 2013-11-15)

The effects of malnutrition on health status and survival of children has been the subject of extensive research for several decades. Malnutrition affects physical growth, cognitive development of children, morbidity ...

Modelling the Impact of Misdiagnosis and Treatment on the Dynamics of Malaria Concurrent and Co-infection with Pneumonia

Akinyi, Okaka; Mugisha, JYT; Manyonge, A; Ouma, C; Maseno, Kenya (2013)

Incidences of misdiagnosis of diseases with similar symptoms as malaria has increased lately due to the increasing levels of endemicity of these diseases and their co- infection with malaria. In this paper a mathematical ...

Archaeal diversity and community structure in the compartmented gut of highert termites

James Oluoch Nonoh (Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2013)

Termites are phylogenetically divided into lower and higher termites (Inward et al., 2007). The higher termites, which constitute three quarter of all known termite species, are represented by only one family Termitidae, ...

Qualitative analysis of phytoconstituents in tragia brevipes plant

37. T Anthoney Swamy, Ngule Chrispus Mutuku, Makau Elijah Ngule and Ramesh Francis (International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research & Analysis, 2013)

The study was conducted to analyze the phytoconstituents of Tragia brevipes plant leaves. The plant samples were extracted using methanol and water in the ratio 9:1. The phytoconstituents study was done using standard ...

(− 7402 T/G and-4729G/A) condition susceptibility to pediatric severe malarial anemia but not circulating IL-13 levels

Okeyo, Winnie A; Munde, Elly O; Okumu, Wilson; Raballah, Evans; Anyona, Samuel B; Vulule, John M; Ong’echa, John M; Perkins, Douglas J; Ouma, Collins (Bio Med Central, 2013)

In holoendemic Plasmodium falciparum transmission areas such as western Kenya, severe malarial anemia [SMA, hemoglobin (Hb)< 6.0 g/dL, with any density parasitemia] is the most common clinical manifestation of severe ...

CD4+ Cell Response to Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ARTS) In Routine Clinical Care Over One Year Period in a Cohort of HAART Naive, HIV Positive Kenyan Patients

CF Otieno, AEO Otedo, D Othero, MY Otiende, P Okoth, EO Omonge, GO Oyoo (AJOL, 2013)

Background: Untreated HIV/AIDS leads to severe immune depletion with opportunistic infections and other co-morbidities. Highly active anti-retroviral ...

Prevalence of food insecurity in patients with diabetes in western Kenya.

Pastakia SD. Cheng S, Kamano J, Kirui NK, Manuthu E, Buckwalter V, Ouma K (Wiley, 2013)

Aims To determine the characteristics of patients with diabetes who reported food insecurity at three diabetes clinics in western Kenya. Methods This study includes routinely collected demographic data at the first ...