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pro vyhledávání: '"Gregory Maitha"'
Autor:
Ian Maclean, Julius Oyugi, Francis A. Plummer, Kelly S. MacDonald, Job J. Bwayo, Joshua Kimani, Gregory Maitha, Nicolaas J. D. Nagelkerke, Rosanna W. Peeling, Robert C. Brunham, Mary Cheang
Publikováno v:
Journal of Infectious Diseases. 173:1437-1444
Beginning in April 1991 in a special treatment clinic in Nairobi Kenya 302 commercial sex workers were enrolled in a prospective study designed to examine the role of immunologic factors in Chlamydia trachomatis. They were followed for 17.6 months. T
Autor:
Gregory Maitha, King K. Holmes, Peter Piot, Nico J. D. Nagelkerke, Joanne Embree, Joan K. Kreiss, M Braddick, Marleen Temmerman, HO Pamba, Jackoniah O. Ndinya-Achola, P. Datta, Francis A. Plummer
Publikováno v:
Journal of Infectious Diseases. 170:1134-1140
Mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is a significant problem in countries with endemic HIV-1 infection. Between 1986 and 1991, 365 children of HIV-1-infected mothers and 363 control children were studied in Ken
Autor:
Francis A. Plummer, Sharon L. Hillier, JO Ndinya-Achola, Gregory Maitha, Joan K. Kreiss, Marie Reilly, D.B.A. Clemetson, Gregory B. Moss, Nancy C. Kiviat, Peter Piot, L J D'Costa, C. William Cameron, Isaac A Wamola, King K. Holmes
Publikováno v:
Journal of Infectious Diseases. 164:588-591
Between June 1988-February 1989 physicians enrolled 70 couples attending the Nairobi City Commission Special Treatment Clinic for STDs (Sexually Transmitted) Diseases) to determine the incidence of and risk factors for heterosexual transmission of HI
Autor:
Thomas C. Quinn, J. Embree, Hunnington Pamba, King K. Holmes, Pacita L. Roberts, Gregory Maitha, Francis A. Plummer, Peter Piot, M Braddick, G. Vercauteren, Jack O. Ndinya-Achola, Michael W Adler, Joan K. Kreiss, P. Datta
Publikováno v:
AIDS. 4:1001-1006
In a case-control study of 177 HIV-seropositive and 326 seronegative women and their newborns in Nairobi, Kenya, maternal HIV infection at term was independently associated with travel to other African countries [odds ratio (OR) 4.9, P less than 0.00
Autor:
Nico J. D. Nagelkerke, Caixia Shen, Ian Maclean, Robert C. Brunham, Chunlin Yang, Francis A. Plummer, Joshua Kimani, Mary Cheang, Job J. Bwayo, Gregory Maitha, Susan Roman
Publikováno v:
The Journal of infectious diseases. 173(4)
Female sex workers in Nairobi were prospectively evaluated for risk factors of incident Chlamydia trachomatis infection. Independent risk factors included cervical ectopy (P=.007), gonococcal infection (P=.002), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ser
Publikováno v:
The Journal of clinical investigation. 94(1)
60 cervical Chlamydia trachomatis infections identified by antigen detection from 51 prostitute women in Nairobi, Kenya were evaluated for sequence polymorphism in the major outer membrane protein (omp1) gene. DNA from clinical specimens was amplifie
Autor:
Isaac A Wamola, Francis A. Plummer, Gregory Maitha, Joan K. Kreiss, Jackoniah O. Ndinya-Achola, Gregory B. Moss
Publikováno v:
AIDS (London, England). 4(4)
We evaluated a rapid membrane-based assay (HIV-CHEK) for detection of antibodies to HIV using 737 serum samples in Nairobi, Kenya. The rapid assay had a sensitivity of 96.3% and specificity of 99.8% when compared with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assa
Autor:
Mary Cheang, Beverly Elliott, Peter Piot, Gregory Maitha, Francis A. Plummer, Robert C. Brunham, Jackoniah O. Ndinya-Achola, Marie Laga
Publikováno v:
The Journal of infectious diseases. 161(3)
With the objective of determining if specific sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are associated with prematurity (birth weight less than or equal to 2500 g and gestational age less than or equal to 36 weeks), a case-control study was conducted to e
Autor:
Kenneth L. Rosenthal, Frank Plummer, JO Ndinya-Achola, A. M. Gómez, Ian Maclean, Gregory Maitha, Mark W. Tyndall
Publikováno v:
AIDS. 8:1625
This paper reports the findings of a study on human sera with a known HIV-1 seroconversion date using a third-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The third-generation techniques would be tested against the first-generation viral lys
Autor:
Marie Laga, Francis A. Plummer, Peter Piot, Pratiba Datta, Warren Namaara, Jackonya O. Ndinya-Achola, Herbert Nzanze, Gregory Maitha, Allan R. Ronald, Hannington O. Pamba, Robert C. Brunham
Publikováno v:
New England Journal of Medicine. 318:653-657
We evaluated the use of silver nitrate drops and tetracycline ointment for the prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum in a controlled trial involving 2732 newborns in Nairobi, Kenya. The overall rates of prevalence of intrapartum maternal gonococcal an