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Interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 gene promoter polymorphisms and risk of endemic Burkitt lymphoma
(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 ...
Serratia marcescens is injurious to intestinal epithelial cells
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-11-02)
Diarrhea causes substantial morbidity and mortality in children in low-income countries.
Although numerous pathogens cause diarrhea, the etiology of many episodes remains
unknown. Serratia marcescens is incriminated ...
Systematic Monitoring of Male Circumcision Scale-Up in Nyanza, Kenya: Exploratory Factor Analysis of Service Quality Instrument and Performance Ranking
(Public Library of Science, 2014-07-01)
Background Considerable conceptual and operational complexities related to service
quality measurements and variability in delivery contexts of scaled-up medical male
circumcision, pose real challenges to monitoring ...
Correlates of Behavior Management Strategies Among Learners With Autistic Spectrum Disorders In Primary Schools In Western Kenya
(2014)
Practitioners handling learners with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) often feel ill-
prepared to effectively manage this disorder. Quite often, when faced with cases of
challenging behaviour, teachers use coping ...
Functional Haplotypes of Fc gamma (Fcγ) receptor (FcγRIIA and FcγRIIIB) predict risk to repeated episodes of severe malarial anemia and mortality in Kenyan children
(Springer-Verlag, 2012-02-01)
Development of protective immunity against Plasmodium falciparum is partially
mediated through binding of malaria-specific IgG to Fc gamma (γ) receptors. Variations in
human FcγRIIA-H/R-131 and FcγRIIIB-NA1/NA2 affect ...
EBNA-1 specific effector T cell deletion associated with holoendemic malaria exposure in the etiology of endemic Burkitt’s lymphoma (P3063)
(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 ...
Provider knowledge of treatment policy and dosing regimen with artemether-lumefantrine and quinine in malaria-endemic areas of western Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2012-12-29)
Due to widespread anti-malarial drug resistance in many countries, Kenya
included, artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) has been adopted as the most
effective treatment option against malaria. Artemether-lumefantrine ...
Factors in the management of feeding in nursery school children as perceived by their mothers in rural Bondo County, Kenya
(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
(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 ...
Polymorphic variability in the 3'untranslated region (UTR) of IL12B is associated with susceptibility to severe anaemia in Kenyan children with acute Plasmodium falc...
(BioMed Central, 2011-08-06)
Plasmodium falciparum malaria remains a leading cause of morbidity and
mortality among African children. Innate immunity provides the first line of defence against P.
falciparum infections, particularly in young children ...