Theileria parva is a protozoan parasite that causes the disease East Coast fever in
cattle leading to major economic losses in Eastern and Southern Africa including
Kenya. A live vaccine against the parasite exists ...
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a major cause of respiratory illness in all ages
but occurs more often in children under 2 year. This study evaluated the genetic
diversity of G protein gene in samples collected from ...
Rotavirus remains a leading cause of severe diarrhoea in children worldwide,
especially in developing countries where about 2000 children die each day from
rotavirus-related gastroenteritis infection. Due to HIV/AIDS ...
Understanding the mechanisms that confer protection against progressive infection with
HIV-1 may be useful in the development of appropriate interventions. The impact of
CX3CR1 gene polymorphisms on human immunodeficiency ...
Severe diarrhea is a common occurrence among children below the age of five years
worldwide, and the major cause remains infection from rotavirus. The mortality from
rotaviruses stands at an estimated 215,000 annually ...
Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children.
Each year more than 527,000 children die from rotavirus gastroenteritis, and two
million are hospitalized. The licensing and introduction ...
Clean and plentiful water provides the foundation for prosperous communities.
Changing climate patterns are threatening lakes and rivers, while key sources of
drinking water are being overdrawn or tainted with pollution. ...
Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosomiasis are neglected tropical diseases
(NTDs) mostly prevalent in communities living in areas of poverty in developing
tropical countries. Currently, control programmes are ...
One of the major interventions in the fight against malaria is prompt treatment with effective antimalarial drugs. However, access to such drugs especially for the poor and marginalized remains a major challenge. This was ...
Hypertension remains a public health disorder of concern globally even in developed
countries with functioning health care systems and a large number of available effective
treatments. In the year 2000, approximately 972 ...
Chicken is a rich source of meat protein and is increasingly being consumed in urban
Kenya. However, under poor hygienic conditions, raw chicken meat can be an efficient
medium for the spread of infectious agents including ...
Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) helps in improving
delivery of health care services. However, despite heavy investment by Kenyan
government in ICT infrastructures, the efficiency and benefits ...
Globally, anemia is one of the most prevalent nutritional deficiencies with the
children under five being the most affected. African region has highest prevalence of
62.3%. Locally, previous studies have shown Kwale ...
Globally road traffic injuries contribute significantly to the burden of disease and
mortality. Road traffic injuries are ranked 9th among the leading causes of Disability
adjusted life years lost and predicted to be 7th ...
Road traffic accidents (RTA) are rapidly growing posing a public health problem since it
is projected to become the third leading cause of morbidity and mortality by the year
2020 (WHO, 2013). There is inadequacy of ...
A measure of the proportion of deliveries assisted by skilled attendants is one of the
indicators of progress towards Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which aims at
improving maternal health. In Kenya, the proportion ...
Dental caries is a chronic infectious disease that causes demineralization of dental hard
tissues. Dental caries was declared a pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) in
2005 because of its high global prevalence ...
Cancer of the cervix is the second most common cancer in women worldwide and
the leading cause of cancer deaths in women in developing countries. The prevalence
is highest in the developing countries, one of the reasons ...
Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite and a major cause of diarrhea in children and
immunocompromised patients. Current diagnostic methods for cryptosporidiosis such as
microscopy depict inter-observer variability ...
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or kala-azar is a chronic protozoan infection in humans
that is fatal unless treated and is associated with significant global morbidity and
mortality. Confirmation of visceral leishmaniasis ...