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DESCRIBING THE PREVALENCE OF ASYMPTOMATIC MALARIA AND VIRAL INFECTIONS AMONG BLOOD DONORS IN COASTAL KENYA
(Pwani University, 2019-07)Blood transfusion is a practice that has saved millions of lives of patients with severe anemia. Although blood transfusion is life saving, the practice poses a great threat to the health of the recipient due to transmission ... -
DETERMINATION OF PREVALENCE OF DEFAULTING AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS FROM TREATMENT AMONG TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS IN KILIFI NORTH SUB COUNTY
(Pwani University, 2019-09)Tuberculosis is a major public health problem and remains one of the deadliest communicable diseases. Understanding the characteristics of patients who default from treatment for tuberculosis will help modify the strategies ... -
DETERMINATION OF PREVALENCE OF DEFAULTING AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS FROM TREATMENT AMONG TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS IN KILIFI NORTH SUB COUNTY
(Pwani University, 2019-09-28)Tuberculosis is a major public health problem and remains one of the deadliest communicable diseases. Understanding the characteristics of patients who default from treatment for tuberculosis will help modify the strategies ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF A PRE-PROCESSING WORKFLOW FOR LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY PROTEOMICS DATA
(2022-11-15)Introduction: Omics technological advancements have improved the ability to quickly collect significant amounts of data and efficiently support scientific research. The Proteomics platform is not an exception as the large ... -
EFFECTIVENESS OF LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES IN REDUCTION OF SEA TURTLE BYCATCH IN ARTISANAL BOTTOM-SET GILLNET FISHERY IN SELECTED SITES, NORTH-COAST KENYA
(Pwani University, 2022-03-13)The artisanal gillnet fishery is found in most of the world's oceans and is responsible for a high rate of sea turtle bycatch. Between December 2016 and December 2017, this study assessed the effectiveness of light-emitting ... -
EFFECTS OF VITAMIN D STATUS ON PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINE RESPONSES IN CHILDREN BELOW FIVE YEARS WITHIN KILIFI COUNTY, KENYA
(Pwani University, 2022-03-11)Background: Pneumonia is a major public health problem and a leading cause of death in children under 5 years in low and middle-income countries (LMICS). Despite vaccination, pneumonia remains a leading cause of high ... -
THE EFFICACY OF PACKAGING MATERIALS IN REDUCING MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION IN READY-TO-EAT STREET VENDED FRIED FISH AND SUBSEQUENT CONSUMER PERCEPTION
(Pwani Unversity, 2017-07-08)Street vending of ready-to-eat (RTE) food is an important source of livelihood accounting for the employment of millions of people who are poor, unskilled and have limited formal education (Bino, 2006). Despite the ... -
EVALUATE VIRAL HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER OUTBREAKS IN UGANDA TO DISTINGUISH CONTINUED HUMAN TO HUMAN TRANSMISSION VIA SURVIVORS FROM ZOONOTIC SPILLOVER EVENTS (2000-2019)
(Pwani University, 2021-08-26)INTRODUCTION: Uganda has experienced repeated outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) over the last 20 years (Mbonye et al., 2012); Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) occurred in Gulu in 2000; Bundibugyo in 2007; Luweero in ... -
EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MEDIUM SIZED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES ON HOST IMMUNITY
(Pwani University, 2021-03-17)Severe malaria is caused by Plasmodium falciparum, which causes two-thirds of malaria infections in sub-Saharan Africa with children under the age of 5 and pregnant women being the most affected. The mechanisms underlying ... -
EVALUATING THE ROLE OF PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES IN NEGATIVE IMMUNE REGULATION
(Pwani University, 2021-08-28)Malaria is still a major global challenge, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where nearly two-thirds of the global malaria cases are reported annually. The majority of the cases are attributed to Plasmodium falciparum ... -
EVALUATION OF ACACIA STUHLMANNII PLANT EXTRACTS FOR THEIR EFFICACY ON MANAGEMENT OF BACTERIAL WILT OF TOMATO CAUSED BY RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM
(Pwani Unversity, 2015-10-06)Plant phytoactive compounds are antimicrobial against multidrug resistant bacteria. These compounds can be extracted from plants by use of solvents. The objective of this study was to extract and evaluate crude compounds ... -
EVALUATION OF ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS ACROSS THREE ECOSYSTEM TYPES IN TAITA HILLS, KENYA
(PWANI UNIVERSITY, 2023-12-24)Background: Ecosystem functions are key natural processes and components with the capacity of providing goods and services to humans either directly or indirectly. Ecological functions are significantly higher in ... -
EVALUATION OF SELECTED PSEUDOMONAS FLOURESCENS STRAINS AS POTENTIAL BIOCONTROL AGENTS OF DAMPING-OFF IN TOMATO
(Pwani University, 2019-04)Biocontrol has been drawing considerable attention in the control of plant diseases because it is environmentally friendly. Damping-off disease is a serious crop disease causing millions of shillings in losses to farmers. ... -
EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF INFLUENZA B VIRUS IN KILIFI, KENYA AND UGANDA FROM 2010 TO 2022
(PWANI UNIVERSITY, 2024-04-24)This study focused on the understanding the evolutionary dynamics of Influenza B virus (IBV) in Kilifi, Kenya and Uganda from 2010 to 2022. IBV is a significant cause of upper and lower respiratory infections contributing ... -
AN EXPANDED MOTIF ASSESSMENT AND RANKING SUITE FOR HUMAN AND INSECT RESEARCH
(Pwani University, 2020-09-23)Motif Assessment and Ranking Suite (MARS - http://bioinf.ict.ru.ac.za/) is a benchmark web server for MARSTools developed to evaluate, assess, rank and elucidate transcription factor (TF) binding motifs in Position Weight ... -
EXPLORING VIRUS SEQUENCE DIVERSITY USING GENOME GRAPHS
(Pwani University, 2020-11-23)Linear reference genomes are a consensus of the most frequent base at a given position. Graph-based reference genomes represent a genome as a network of alternative paths, thereby providing information on variant bases. ... -
GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY OF VITAMIN D STATUS IN KENYAN CHILDREN IN KILIFI AND GAMBIAN CHILDREN IN WEST KIANG
(Pwani University, 2022-11-11)Vitamin D deficiency is a major public health issue linked to autoimmune disorders, cancer, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases among other medical conditions. The link between vitamin D status and these diseases ... -
GROWTH AND DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 15: A BIOMARKER OF DISEASE TOLERANCE IN HUMAN MALARIA INFECTION
(Pwani University, 2022-03-17)Currently, artesunate is the most effective antimalarial drug for treating severe malaria patients as it clears the parasite relatively quickly. Despite being treated with artesunate, about 15-20% of children admitted ... -
HOOK SIZE SELECTIVITY IN THE HANDLINE FISHERIES OF SHIMONI, SOUTH COAST KENYA
(Pwani Unversity, 2017-05-06)Handline fisheries employ hooks of different sizes and therefore select fish according to species and size which can influence the composition of fish stocks in any given fishery. The aim of this study was to assess the ... -
IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANNOTATION OPTIMIZING AND BENCHMARKING; NOVEL GERMLINE ALLELE DISCOVERY IN SELECTED AFRICAN BOVINE BREEDS
(Pwani University, 2021-03-2)Antibodies are critical molecules of the adaptive immune response of vertebrates. For an animal to neutralize the pathogens it will encounter in its lifetime, the diversity of antibodies it will need to produce is enormous. ...