Current medical research in eastern Africa with emphasis on zoonoses and waterborne diseases : proceedings of the Third Annual Medical Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 1982 / Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute (KETRI) ; editors, P.M. Tukei, A.R. Njogu.
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| Language: | English |
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Nairobi :
Africascience International Pub.,
1983.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
Contents:
- Recovery of cestode eggs from water and soil in the Turkana District of Kenya / P Stevenson (3 p.).
- Use of ultrasound scanning in the diagnosis of human hydatid disease / I Mann (5 p.).
- Use of cetrimide (R) as a scolicidal adjunct to hydatid surgery / Calum N.L Macpherson (5 p.).
- Serodiagnosis of hydatidosis using a defined antigen / F.M Njeruh (5 p.).
- Serodiagnosis of bovine cysticercosis / E.I.P Kamanga-Sollo (5 p.).
- Use of rose bengal plate test in diagnosis of brucellosis / S Waghela (9 p.).
- Campylobacter gastroenteritis in Nairobi, Kenya / I.A Wamola (3 p.).
- Virological survey of children in Mombasa and Nyeri : an interim report / O Mohammed (7 p.).
- Parasitological findings in diarrhoeic stools at the Coast General Hospital, Mombasa / Y Aoki (4 p.).
- Aetiology of acute respiratory disease (ARD) in hospitalized children in the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi / P.M Tukei (6 p.).
- Management epidemiology for the improvement of the health care delivery system / F.M Mburu (6 p.).
- Role of schools in disease control / Melanie Nyambura Katsivo (4 p.).
- Medical research : for what? / F.M Mburu (7 p.).
- Simple random survey method for the expanded programme on immunization / P.W Kok (3 p.).
- Role of immune complexes in limiting in vitro damage to schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni by baboon peripheral blood leucocytes / R.G Kimani (8 p.).
- Hepatitis B virus transmission rate : a marker of immunosuppression? / T.R Boufry (4 p.).
- Viral haemorrhagic fever surveillance in Kenya, 1980-1981 / B.K Johnson (5 p.).
- Role of leprosy research in the National Leprosy Control / D.M Owili (5 p.).
- Assessment of case-finding in pulmonary tuberculosis in Kenya / J.A Aluoch (5 p.).
- Fifth East African/British Medical Research Councils short course chemotherapy study : a comparison of three 6-month and one 8-month regimens of chemotherapy for pulmonary tuberculosis / J.A Aluoch (6 p.).
- Malarial nephropathy : preliminary report on G6PD and sickling test / L.S Otieno (4 p.).
- Measurement of Kenyan plasmodium falciparum drug sensitivity by an in vitro radioisotopic method / W.M Watkins (3 p.).
- Analysis of blood meals of haematophagous insects by haematophagous inhibition and enzyme immunoassay / K.J Lindqvist (12 p.).
- Investigations of simuliidae in parts of Western Kenya / Phoebe A.O Josiah (13 p.).
- Survival of multi-antibiotic resistant vibrio El Tor in pond water / L.N Mutanda (2 p.).
- Zoonotic diseases of fish-borne origin / M.G Binta (3 p.).
- Market fish hygiene in Kenya / M.G Binta (3 p.).
- Salmonella reservoirs in animals as sources of human infection / M Kayihura (6 p.).
- Entomological, bacteriological and serological observations after the 1977 plague outbreak in Mbulu District, Tanzania / B.S Kilonzo (6 p.).
- Primary eye care at various levels in Kenya / V.M Sheffield (5 p.).
- Cataract and health manpower in Kenya / P.G Steinkuller (5 p.).
- Evaluation of high dose, short duration sodium stibogluconate (pentostam R) treatment of Kenyan Kala-azar / J.D Chulay (3 p.).
- Role of Leishmanin skin testing in the epidemiology of Kala-azar / J Leeuwenburg (3 p.).
- Comparison of different types of culture media for Leishmania donovani / John I Githure (6 p.).
- Laboratory colonization of Phlebotomus martini parrot 1936 (diptera : pschodidae), a vector of visceral Leishmaniasis in Kenya / R.F Beach (2 p.).
- Leishmanial infection rates in various phlebotomine species of sandflies in Kenya / M.J Mutinga (4 p.).
- Leishmanial parasites in "unusual" sites of development in invertabrate hosts : a possible diagnostic tool / J.B Kaddu (6 p.).
- Nutritional status of Akamba children in Muumandu sublocation, Machakos / A.A.J Jansen (5 p.).
- Nutrition intervention through a mixed ambulatory-home approach / M.T.B Verkleij (5 p.).
- Economic determinants of "protein energy malnutrition" : an historical approach with an African example (3 districts in the Republic of Kenya) : preliminary evidence and hypothesis / Pablo Casanova H Gonza'lez (17 p.).
- Longitudinal study of blood pressure and its correlates amongst members of a rural community who migrate to Nairobi / N.R Poulter (5 p.).
- Oesophageal varices in Nairobi, Kenya : a study of 86 cases / K.M. de Cock (4 p.).
- Sleeping sickness and filariasis mixed infection in Busia district : a case report / T.K. arap Diongok (8 p.).
- Chemical and pharmacological examination of the herbal preparation, Miti / Kihumbu Thairu (4 p.).
- Mineralocorticoid effects of Ig10 : a new agent effective in delayed hypersensitivity / H Osore (2 p.).
- Ferula communis extracts as potential rodenticides / A Maradufu (4 p.).
- Comparative efficiency of blood and lymph node smears in field diagnosis of trypanosomiasis in cattle / F.P Oloo (5 p.).
- Maintenance of a herd of breeding cattle in an area of high trypanosome challenge : the role of intercurrent diseases / P.K.B Rushigajiki (2 p.).
- Further observations on the composition of Glossina population at Lugala, South Busoga, Uganda / Josue O Okoth (3 p.).
- Control of Glossina pallidipes population in Lambwe Valley, Kenya using endosulfan / E.A Opiyo (7 p.).
- Investigation into the development of drug resistance in trypanosome isolates from Lambwe Valley / S.K Gitatha (1 p.).
- Oxidation of exogenous glycolytic intermediates made possible by permeabilization of bloodstream T. brucei membranes with digitonin / J.K Kiaira (18 p.).