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The prevalence and management strategies of gestational urinary tract infections (UTI) in Kisumu County, Kenya
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2022)
Urinary tract infections (UTI) contribute to substantive proportions of adverse pregnancy outcomes. Current national statistics in Kenya show high maternal mortality (488/100,000) and neonatal mortality (24/1,000) rates. ...
Evidence of co-exposure with Brucella spp, Coxiella burnetii, and Rift Valley fever virus among various species of wildlife in Kenya
(Public Library of Science, 2022-09)
Co-infection, especially with pathogens of dissimilar genetic makeup, may result in a more
devastating impact on the host. Investigations on co-infection with neglected zoonotic pathogens in wildlife are necessary to ...
Influence of landscape heterogeneity on entomological and parasitological indices of malaria in Kisumu, Western Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2022)
Identification and characterization of larval habitats, documentation of Anopheles spp. composition and abundance, and Plasmodium spp. infection burden are critical components of integrated vector management. The present ...
Prevalence of preconception care provision in Kisumu county-Kenya
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2022)
‘Preconception care’ (PCC) is the provision of biomedical, behavioral and social
health interventions to women and couples before conception occurs. The PCC, is valuable and
key in preventing and controlling non-communicable ...
Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Bacteria Isolated from Wounds of Diabetic Patients at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching & Referral Hospital (JOOTRH), Kenya
(EJMED, 2022)
The purpose of this study was to determine antimicrobial resistance patterns of bacteria isolated from wounds of diabetes mellitus patients at JOOTRH. A hospital based cross sectional study design was employed with a target ...
Determinants of aflatoxin exposures in Kenyan School-aged children
(Taylor & Francis, 2022)
Aflatoxins are naturally occurring food toxins known to contaminate cereals with a carry-over effect in milk and meat products from farm animals raised on contaminated feed. In children, continuous consumption of ...
Clinical malaria incidence and health seeking pattern in geographically heterogeneous landscape of western Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2022)
Malaria remains a public health problem in Kenya despite sustained interventions deployed by the government. One of the major impediments to effective malaria control is a lack of accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. ...
Patterns and predictors of elevated blood pressure and hypertension among primary school children in urban Kenya
(LWW, 2022)
We examined the prevalence of elevated blood pressure (BP) and hypertension among 390 primary school children of different socioeconomic status (SES) in two urban settings in Kenya and explored the association between ...
Vaccine effectiveness against hospital admission in South African health care workers who received a homologous booster of Ad26. COV2 during an Omicron COVID19 wave: Preliminary Results of the Sisonke 2 Study.
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2021)
Following the results of the ENSEMBLE 2 study, which demonstrated improved vaccine efficacy
of a two-dose regimen of Ad26.COV.2 vaccine given 2 months apart, we expanded the Sisonke
study which had provided single dose ...
Sisonke phase 3B open-label study: Lessons learnt for national and global vaccination scale-up during epidemics
(AJOL, 2022)
Sisonke is a multicentre, open-label, single-arm phase 3B vaccine implementation study of healthcare workers (HCWs) in South Africa, with prospective surveillance for 2 years. The primary endpoint is the rate of severe ...