Publications

microbiology of vaginal discharge in nairobi, kenya.	among women attending a sexually transmitted disease (std) clinic in nairobi with vaginal discharge, neisseria gonorrhoeae and chlamydia trachomatis were isolated from the cervix in 32 (26%) of 122 and four (7%) of 58 women respectively. infection with trichomonas vaginalis, candida albicans, gardnerella vaginalis, and mycoplasma spp were diagnosed in 42 of 122 (34%), 26 of 110 (24%), 75 of 100 (75%), and 42 of 89 (47%) women respectively. mixed infections with at least two pathogens were found ...	1983	6405973
isolation of mycoplasma hominis from genital ulcerations of patients in eastern and southern africa.	in three separate surveys involving 413 patients in mbabane (swaziland), nairobi (kenya), and carletonville (south africa), mycoplasma hominis was isolated from the base of ulcers in 41 (16%) of 251 men with genital ulcer disease. antibodies to m. hominis were detected by indirect hemagglutination in 89 (51%) of 176 such patients. of these male patients, 15% and 6% had indirect hemagglutinating antibodies at titers of greater than or equal to 160 and greater than or equal to 640, respectively. t ...	1983	6689381
microbial aetiology and diagnostic criteria of postpartum endometritis in nairobi, kenya.	using a protected triple lumen device, neisseria gonorrhoeae or chlamydia trachomatis, or both, were isolated from the endometriums of five out of 35 women with clinical postpartum endometritis compared with none of a control group of 30 puerperal women without endometritis (p less than 0.05) in nairobi, kenya. these sexually transmitted agents were also found in 12 cervical specimens from women with and three without postpartum endometritis (p = 0.04). mycoplasma hominis and ureaplasma urealyti ...	1988	3137152
association between mycoplasma genitalium and acute endometritis.	up to 70% of cases of pelvic inflammatory disease do not have a known cause. we recruited 115 women who had presented to a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases in nairobi, kenya with pelvic pain that had persisted for 14 days or less, to look for an association between mycoplasma genitalium and endometritis. with pcr, we detected m genitalium in the cervix, endometrium, or both in nine (16%) of 58 women with histologically confirmed endometritis and in one (2%) of 57 women without endometrit ...	2002	11888591
mycoplasma pneumoniae in children with pneumonia at mbagathi district hospital, nairobi.	to determine the prevalence of mycoplasma pneumoniae in nasopharyngeal aspirates of children under five years of age suffering from pneumonia.	2002	12643233
mycoplasma genitalium infection and persistence in a cohort of female sex workers in nairobi, kenya.	the objective of this study was to assess the risk factors for and persistence of mycoplasma genitalium (mg) in a highly exposed female population in kenya.	2007	16940898