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
HIV-1 RNA levels in an African population-based cohort and their relation to CD4 lymphocyte counts and World Health Organization clinical staging (Publications)
Apart from a small number of reports from people who are based in hospitals, data on viral load in HIV-infected people in sub-Saharan Africa, where most infections occur, are lacking. We report serum
Relationship between HIV-1 Env subtypes A and D and disease progression in a rural Ugandan cohort (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role of HIV-1 envelope subtypes on disease progression in a rural cohort of Ugandan adults where two major HIV-1 subtypes (A and D) exist. METHODS: Participants of a clin
<em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections are associated with agglutinating antibodies to parasite-infected erythrocyte surface antigens among healthy... (Publications)
Antibodies to the highly diverse variant surface antigens (VSAs) expressed on Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes are thought to play a role in the development of naturally acquired immunity t
The effects of untreated bednets on malaria infection and morbidity on the Kenyan coast (Publications)
A study was conducted in order to determine whether children that slept under untreated bednets were protected against both malaria infection and clinical disease compared with children not sleeping u
<em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>-infected erythrocytes: agglutination by diverse Kenyan plasma is associated with severe disease and young host age (Publications)
The variant surface antigens (VSAs) of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells are potentially important targets of naturally acquired immunity to malaria. Natural infections induce agglutinati
Genetic diversity of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> parasites from Kenya is not affected by antifolate drug selection (Publications)
The genotypes of merozoite surface protein-1, merozoite surface protein-2 and glutamine rich protein are frequently used to distinguish recrudescence from reinfection when parasitaemia reappears after
Exposure to ozone gases in pulp mills and the onset of rhinitis (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Rhinitis is a common upper respiratory disease influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. It is also accepted that allergic rhinitis may precede asthma, a disease with more serio
