Prognostic indicators of early and late death in children admitted to district hospital in Kenya: cohort study (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To identify clinical indicators of immediate, early, and late mortality in children at admission to a sub-Saharan district hospital and to develop prognostic scores. DESIGN: Prospective co
Causes of death in a rural, population-based human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) natural history cohort in Uganda (Publications)
BACKGROUND: While human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related causes of death have been well documented in developed countries, in Africa data are scanty and mainly based on autopsy studies from city h
Outcome of delivery and cause-specific mortality and severe morbidity in early infancy: a Kenyan District Hospital birth cohort (Publications)
It has proven very difficult to determine the causes of early infant mortality and morbidity in Africa. We undertook a two-year, prospective birth cohort study in a rural Kenyan District Hospital to e
Reproducibility of pacing profiles in elite swimmers (Publications)
PURPOSE: To analyze the reproducibility of pacing in elite swimmers during competitions and to compare heats and finals within 1 event. METHODS: Finals and heats of 158 male swimmers (age 22.8 +/- 2.9
Birth weight at high altitudes in Peru (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether birth weights are lower at high altitudes, and whether gestational age at birth and a population's length of residence mitigate the effect of high altitude. METHODS: Th
Cycloheximide prevents production of arresting, a fraction of 30-50 kDa obtained from seminiferous tubule conditioned medium (Publications)
AIM: To evaluate the effect of a protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide on arresting activity in spermatogenesis and sperm count in male rats. METHODS: The study used seminiferous tubule (ST) segme
Trematode infections: liver and lung flukes (Publications)
Food-borne trematodiases are an emerging public health problem in Southeast Asia and Latin America and of growing importance for travel clinics in Europe and North America. The disease is caused by ch