We studied the rate of participation of psychiatric nurses in mental healthcare in Kenya. A simple questionnaire was delivered to 50 nurses attending a mental health meeting of the National Nursing Alliance of Kenya in April 2012. Of the 40 nurses with psychiatric nursing qualifications, 19 worked specifically as psychiatric nurses; among those employed as general nurses, half their case-loads ...

The author describes her fieldwork studying a population of Mackinders eagle owls that live adjacent to small-scale farms in rural Kenya. Her study investigated the effects of farming practices on the diet and breeding ecology of the owls. She documented local people's attitudes toward owls since owls are taboo throughout Africa. She describes a typical day in the field, the community aspect of...

No further cases of rinderpest were recorded among Cape buffaloes (Syncerus caffer) in the Tsavo ecosystem after June 1995. There were, however, suspect but unconfirmed cases involving lesser kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis), bushbuck (T. scriptus) and giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) in the Meru area of Kenya in 1995. Serosurveillance showed that the epidemic had been more extensive than originally...

1 Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 2 The DeWorm3 Project, The Natural History Museum of London, London, United Kingdom, 3 Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, 4 Neglected Tropical Disease Team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washingto...

Enteropathogens in Children Living in The Gambia and Kenya Roshni Daver, MBBS, MD; Jitesh Shewale, DDS; Brianna Lindsay, PhD; Joseph Oundo, PhD; Martin Antonio, PhD; Sandra Panchalingam, PhD; Debasish Saha, PhD; Robert F. Breiman, MD; Kelly Volcik, PhD; Megan L. Grove, MS; O. Colin Stine, PhD; James Kaper, PhD; Myron Levine, MD, FIDSA; Karen Kotloff, MD; James Nataro, MD, PhD; Pablo Okhuysen, M...

Emergence of Quinolone Resistance and Cephalosporin MIC Creep in Neisseria gonorrhoeae Isolates from a Cohort of Young Men in Kisumu, Kenya, 2002 to 2009 Supriya D. Mehta,* Ian Maclean, Jeckoniah O. Ndinya-Achola,† Stephen Moses, Irene Martin, Allan Ronald, Lawrence Agunda, Ruth Murugu, Robert C. Bailey, Johan Melendez, and Jonathan M. Zenilman Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Univer...

Numerous outbreaks of cholera have occurred in Kenya since 1971. To more fully understand the epidemiology of cholera in Kenya, we analyzed the genetic relationships among 170 Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates at 5 loci containing variable tandem repeats. The isolates were collected during January 2009-May 2010 from various geographic areas throughout the country. The isolates grouped genetically int...

In spite of increasing prevalence of diabetes among Kenyans and evidence suggesting Kenyans with diabetes maintain poor glycemic control, no one has examined the role of cultural attitudes, beliefs, and practices in their self-management of diabetes. The purpose of this ethnographic study was to describe diabetes self-management among the Swahili of coastal Kenya, and explore factors that affec...

We screened 217 bats of at least 20 species from 17 locations in Kenya during July and August of 2006 for the presence of adenovirus, rhabdovirus, and paramyxovirus nucleic acids using generic reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and PCR assays. Of 217 bat fecal swabs examined, 4 bats were adenovirus DNA-positive, 11 bats were paramyxovirus RNA-positive, and 2 bats were rhab...

A switch of HIV coreceptor usage from CCR5 to CXCR4 occurs in AIDS pathogenesis and may play a critical role in the use of entry inhibitors. To determine the potential usefulness of maraviroc and other CCR5 antagonists among drug-naive and experienced patients in Kenya, the env-C2-V3 gene was successfully sequenced in samples from 176 (98 men and 78 female) consenting subjects between January 2...