1 National Tuberculosis Control Program, Nairobi, Kenya; 2 Centre for Respiratory Diseases Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya; 3 Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya; 4 DST/NRF Centre of excellence for Biomedical TB Research, Division of molecular Biology and Human Genetics, University of St...

1 Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2 Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya, 3 Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4 Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi,...

Author details School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA. Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi city, Kenya. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, San Francisco, USA. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, USA. Family AIDS Care Educa...

a Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, University of Nairobi, Kenya b Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya c Department of Pharmacology & Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, University of Nairobi, Kenya _____________ * Corresponding author: Department of Pharmacology & Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 19676-00202 KNH, Nair...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of extension services in enhancing effectiveness of out growers’ credit system in kisumu county, kenya. the study specifically sought to determine whether public and private extension services play a significant role in enhancing effectiveness of out-growers’ credit system among smallholder sugarcane farmers. a total of 110 small scale farme...

Author details Department of Pathology, Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi, P.O. Box 30270-00100, Nairobi, Kenya. Division of Chemical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Hospital, P.O. Box 19113, Cape Town, South Africa. PathCare Kenya Ltd, P.O. Box 12560-00606, Nairobi, Kenya. Department of Human Pathology, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 19676-00200, Nair...

1 Department of Microbial Biochemical and Food Biotechnology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2 Malaria Alert Centre, Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, 3 Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Maputo, Mozambique, 4 Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, 5 Department of Epidemiology and B...

The genus Eviulisoma, the largest among Afrotropical Paradoxosomatidae, currently encompasses 36 species or subspecies, including six new from Kenya: Eviulisomangaia sp. n., Eviulisomangaiaorum sp. n., Eviulisomataitaorum sp. n., Eviulisomataita sp. n., Eviulisomakirimeri sp. n. and Eviulisomakakamega sp. n. In addition, Eviulisomaalluaudi Brolemann, 1920 and Eviulisomasilvestre (Carl, 1909) ar...

Two new species of the subfamily Picobiinae (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) are described: Picobia ploceus sp. n. from Ploceus ocularis Smith (Passeriformes: Ploceidae) and Picobia lamprotornis sp. n. from Lamprotornis superbus (Rüppell) (Passeriformes: Sturnidae), both from Kenya. Additionally, new hosts are recorded: Turdoides jardineii (Smith) (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae) from Kenya...

xanthomonas campestris pv.musacrearum causes banana wilt disease (bxw disease) which occurs at different epidemic phases in east and central africa (eca). in the endemic areas, there are many banana fields with over 80% bxw disease incidence. this study aimed at rehabilitating banana fields heavily infected with bxw disease in uganda, kenya and dr. congo. farmer managed trials were established ...