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 |
pneumocystis jirovecii and microbiological findings in children with severe pneumonia in nairobi, kenya. | to determine the significance of pneumocystis jirovecii infection in the kenyan paediatric population. | 2006 | 17131790 |
[current status of acute respiratory infections in children under five years of age in nairobi, kenya]. | two hundreds and twenty-six children under five years of age with pneumonia were recruited from an urban poor area in nairobi, kenya, and examined for pathogens for 1 year from february 1997. one hundred and twenty-eight of the 226 patients were pathogen-positive cases. the patients under 1-year-old were 61.8% of the pathogen-positive cases. a total 192 organisms were isolated from 128 pathogen-positive patients. streptococcus pneumoniae had the highest prevalence rate of 31.3%, followed by resp ... | 1998 | 9916415 |