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Interleukin (IL)-13 promoter polymorphisms (-7402 T/G and -4729G/A) condition susceptibility to pediatric severe malarial anemia but not circulating IL-13 levels.
(BMC Immunology, 2013-03-13)
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 ...
PATTERNS OF SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING OF ANTITUBERCULOSIS DRUGS AMONG PATIENTS ATTENDING TUBERCLOSIS CLINIC IN KAKAMEGA TEACHING AND REFERALL HOPITAL KENYA
(International Journal of Advanced Research (IJAR), 2021-05-26)
Drug Resistance Tuberculosis (DR TB) is a form of tuberculosis infection that is resistance to treatment with Rifampicin and Isoniazid with or without resistance to one or more other drugs used in the first line treatment ...
Assessment of potential risks and effectiveness of agrochemical usage in a catchment: a case study of the Nzoia Nucleus Estate sugarcane farms in western Kenya
(Science Direct, 2018-05)
Monitoring of agronomic inputs such as pesticides and fertilizers in canals, streams, and rivers within catchments and subsequent modeling of their fate and toxicity are useful tools in determination of their efficient ...
Metaviromic analysis reveals coinfection of papaya in western Kenya with a unique strain of Moroccan watermelon mosaic virus and a novel member of the family Alphaflexiviridae
(Archives of Virology, 2020-03-09)
Severe mottling symptoms were observed on Carica papaya L. in Koyonzo, Kakamega County, Kenya. Total RNA was sequenced via an RNAtag-seq workflow. Assembled contigs indicated the presence of a divergent strain of Moroccan ...
Factors Influencing the Use of Mobile Phone-Enabled Services in Accessing Agricultural Information by Smallholder Farmers in Bungoma County, Kenya
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-11-15)
The agriculture sector is the backbone of Kenya’s economy, contributing approximately 33 percent of Kenya’s gross domestic product (GDP). The agriculture sector employs more than 40 percent of the total population and 70 ...
A CUSTOMER-EMPLOYEE ENCOUNTER: A REVIEW OF CUSTOMER QUALITY CONTROL ON RESTAURANT FOOD SERVICE
(Journal of Tourism & Hospitality, 2019-12)
Food service involves customer quality control in helping to create a meal experience and service value. However, this is not the case as service failures are more often experienced due to challenges faced in the management ...
The Role of Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods Towards the Classification of Living Things: A Review
(African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences, 2021-01)
Biology continues to present difficulties in teaching and learning. Among other biology
domains classification of living things is considered to be one of the challenging subjects
as different studies indicated students’ ...
The Role of CERMESA in internationalization of higher Education and Student Mobility in Africa
(Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy, 2021-06-30)
This study focuses on the influence of institutional policies on student’s mobility in the context of internationalization of
higher education in DAAD established East and South African-German Centre of Excellence for ...
Structure of Eastern African Standby Force in Maintaining Peace and Security in Kenya and Somalia
(2020-12)
Structural issues marred intrastate conflicts in
the early nineties thus challenging regional
security. This prompted the need for a collective
regional response. Further, this explains the
formation of a number of ...
Predictors of optimum antenatal iron-folate supplementation in a low resource rural set-up in Eastern Kenya
(Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology, 2015-11)
There is depressed prevalence of the optimum iron-folate supplementation in Kenya and in other sub-Saharan Africa countries. The study was motivated by the paucity of area-specific data on predictors of optimum iron-folate ...