| microbiology of hiv associated bacteraemia and diarrhoea in adults from nairobi, kenya. | we undertook a retrospective descriptive comparison of the spectrum of pathogens responsible for bacteraemia and diarrhoea in hiv antibody positive and negative patients over 4 years (1988-92), in nairobi, kenya. the study population was recruited from primary to tertiary centres of clinical care and consisted of 2858 adults (15 years or older). there were 415 significant blood culture isolates, 192 from 1785 hiv negative patients and 223 from 953 hiv positive patients. there were 233 significan ... | 1996 | 8760961 |
| use of population-based surveillance to define the high incidence of shigellosis in an urban slum in nairobi, kenya. | worldwide, shigella causes an estimated 160 million infections and >1 million deaths annually. however, limited incidence data are available from african urban slums. we investigated the epidemiology of shigellosis and drug susceptibility patterns within a densely populated urban settlement in nairobi, kenya through population-based surveillance. | 2013 | 23505506 |