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Mital S, Miles G, McLellan-Lemal E, Muthui M, Needle R. Heroin shortage in Coastal Kenya: A rapid assessment and qualitative analysis of heroin users' experiences. Int J Drug Policy 2015; 30:91-8. [PMID: 26470646 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2015] [Revised: 08/11/2015] [Accepted: 08/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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INTRODUCTION While relatively rare events, abrupt disruptions in heroin availability have a significant impact on morbidity and mortality risk among those who are heroin dependent. A heroin shortage occurred in Coast Province, Kenya from December 2010 to March 2011. This qualitative analysis describes the shortage events and consequences from the perspective of heroin users, along with implications for health and other public sectors. METHODS As part of a rapid assessment, 66 key informant interviews and 15 focus groups among heroin users in Coast Province, Kenya were conducted. A qualitative thematic analysis was undertaken in Atlas.ti. to identify salient themes related to the shortage. RESULTS Overall, participant accounts were rooted in a theme of desperation and uncertainty, with emphasis on six sub-themes: (1) withdrawal and strategies for alleviating withdrawal, including use of medical intervention and other detoxification attempts; (2) challenges of dealing with unpredictable drug availability, cost, and purity; (3) changes in drug use patterns, and actions taken to procure heroin and other drugs; (4) modifications in drug user relationship dynamics and networks, including introduction of risky group-level injection practices; (5) family and community response; and (6) new challenges with the heroin market resurgence. CONCLUSIONS The heroin shortage led to a series of consequences for drug users, including increased risk of morbidity, mortality and disenfranchisement at social and structural levels. Availability of evidence-based services for drug users and emergency preparedness plans could have mitigated this impact.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sasha Mital
- Division of Global HIV/AIDS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E-04, Atlanta, GA 30329, United States.
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- Division of Global HIV/AIDS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E-04, Atlanta, GA 30329, United States
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- Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E-45, Atlanta, GA 30329, United States
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- KEMRI Complex, Mbagathi Road off Mbagathi Way, PO Box 606-00621, Village Market, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Division of Global HIV/AIDS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E-04, Atlanta, GA 30329, United States; Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, SA-29, 2nd floor, 2201 C. Street NW, Washington, DC 20522-2920, United States
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WILLIAMS MC, WOODALL JP, CORBET PS. NYANDO VIRUS: A HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED VIRUS ISOLATED FROM ANOPHELES FUNESTUS GILES COLLECTED IN KENYA. Arch Virol 1996; 15:422-7. [PMID: 14292787 DOI: 10.1007/bf01241769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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WILLIAMS MC, WOODALL JP, CORBET PS, GILLETT JD. O'NYONG-NYONG FEVER: AN EPIDEMIC VIRUS DISEASE IN EAST AFRICA. 8. VIRUS ISOLATIONS FROM ANOPHELES MOSQUITOES. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1996; 59:300-6. [PMID: 14298035 DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(65)90012-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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MCCLELLAND GA, WEITZ B. SEROLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION OF THE NATURAL HOSTS OF AEDES AEGYPTI (L.) AND SOME OTHER MOSQUITOES (DIPTERA, CULICIDAE) CAUGHT RESTING IN VEGETATION IN KENYA AND UGANDA. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 1996; 57:214-24. [PMID: 14042652 DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1963.11686176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Experiments on the larval development of Fasciola gigantica carried out under natural conditions have shown that at temperatures of 16° C. or less the rediae did not produce cercariae. The first-generation rediae, developed from the sporocyst, and all the rediae of subsequent generations produced only daughter rediae and did not change over to the production of cercariae as long as the low temperatures of the cold season lasted.As soon as the cold season ended and the temperature of the water in the aquaria containing the infected snails rose to a mean maximum of 20° C. all the rediae switched from redial to cercarial production.
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BROCKLESBY DW, BAILEY KP, JARRETT WF, MARTIN WB, MILLER HR, NDERITO P, URQUHART GM. EXPERIMENTS IN IMMUNITY TO EAST COAST FEVER. Vet Rec 1965; 77:512. [PMID: 14331428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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CLIFFORD P. CHEMOTHERAPY FOR NASOPHARYNGEAL CANCER IN KENYA. East Afr Med J 1965; 42:260-70. [PMID: 14342786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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FENDALL NR, GROUNDS JG. THE INCIDENCE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DISEASE IN KENYA. II. SOME IMPORTANT COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. J Trop Med Hyg 1965; 68:113-20. [PMID: 14287302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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BROCKLESBY DW. EVIDENCE THAT RHIPICEPHALUS PULCHELLUS (GERSTAEKER 1873) MAY BE A VECTOR OF SOME PIROPLASMS. Bull Epizoot Dis Afr 1965; 13:37-44. [PMID: 14286147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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FENDALL NR. MEDICAL PLANNING AND THE TRAINING OF PERSONNEL IN KENYA. J Trop Med Hyg 1965; 68:12-20. [PMID: 14259524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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DAVIS A, NEWSOME J, HENDERSON JR, KETTLE J, WIGGINS LF. RESINATES OF LUCANTHONE IN THE TREATMENT OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS. East Afr Med J 1965; 42:10-30. [PMID: 14271179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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HEISCH RB. ATTEMPTS TO INFECT PEDICULUS HUMANUS WITH SPIROCHAETA DUTTONI FROM MAN. East Afr Med J 1965; 42:31-2. [PMID: 14271181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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GROUNDS JG. CHILD MORTALITY UNDER SIX YEARS OF AGE IN GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS IN KENYA. East Afr Med J 1964; 41:473-94. [PMID: 14230969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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GROUNDS JG. MORTALITY OF CHILDREN UNDER SIX YEARS OLD IN KENYA WITH REFERENCE TO CONTRIBUTORY CAUSES, ESPECIALLY MALNUTRITION. J Trop Med Hyg 1964; 67:257-9. [PMID: 14214456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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ROBERTS JM. THE CONTROL OF EPIDEMIC MALARIA IN THE HIGHLANDS OF WESTERN KENYA. 3. AFTER THE CAMPAIGN. J Trop Med Hyg 1964; 67:230-7. [PMID: 14200812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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MILLER JR. THE PATTERN OF GENERAL SURGICAL DISEASES IN NAIROBI 1960-1963. East Afr Med J 1964; 41:419-29. [PMID: 14229816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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ANGAWA JO. THE PROBLEM AND MANAGEMENT OF DRUG-RESISTANT CASES OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN KENYA. East Afr Med J 1964; 41:436-40. [PMID: 14229818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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ROBERTS JM. THE CONTROL OF EPIDEMIC MALARIA IN THE HIGHLANDS OF WESTERN KENYA. II. THE CAMPAIGN. J Trop Med Hyg 1964; 67:191-9 CONTD. [PMID: 14179766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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ROBERTS JM. THE CONTROL OF EPIDEMIC MALARIA IN THE HIGHLANDS OF WESTERN KENYA. I. BEFORE THE CAMPAIGN. J Trop Med Hyg 1964; 67:161-8 CONTD. [PMID: 14176374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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GROUNDS JG. MORTALITY AND WASTAGE RATES FOR AFRICAN CHILDREN IN KENYA. East Afr Med J 1964; 41:333-43. [PMID: 14195428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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GROUNDS JG. MEASLES IN KENYA. J Trop Med Hyg 1964; 67:169-76. [PMID: 14176375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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PRAKKEN JR. [A NEW INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE IN KENYA]. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 1964; 108:1161-2. [PMID: 14161739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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HARRIES JR. TROPICAL SPRUE IN THE AFRICAN. East Afr Med J 1964; 41:180-7. [PMID: 14168539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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BISLEY GG. CLINICAL TRIAL OF A LONG-ACTING ORAL SULPHONAMIDE IN THE TREATMENT OF TRACHOMA IN KENYA AFRICAN PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDREN. East Afr Med J 1964; 41:142-4. [PMID: 14152423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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FOGH J, ANDERSON HC, ALLEN B, PETURSSON G, SAUNDERS EL, DALLDORF G. CULTIVATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CELLS FROM A MALIGNANT LYMPHOMA IN AN AFRICAN CHILD. Cancer Res 1964; 24:416-31. [PMID: 14147815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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GROUNDS JG. A SPUTUM SURVEY OF CASES OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS TWO TO THREE YEARS AFTER STARTING TREATMENT IN A RURAL AREA IN KENYA. East Afr Med J 1964; 41:156-62. [PMID: 14152424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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DE MELLO JP. SYPHILIS. A GRAVE SOCIOECONOMIC PROBLEM WHICH THE WORLD HAS YET TO SOLVE. An Inst Med Trop (Lisb) 1964; 21:143-51. [PMID: 14300668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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GROUNDS JG. LEPROSY AND TUBERCULOSIS: A STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP IN SOUTH NYANZA, KENYA. J Trop Med Hyg 1964; 67:13-5. [PMID: 14118108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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FORSYTHE-JAUCH WE, ROBINSON RG. CASUALTY CLEARANCE. EXPERIENCES AT THE KENYA INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS. J ROY ARMY MED CORPS 1964; 110:35-44. [PMID: 14125197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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WRIGHT DH. [MALIGNANT LYMPHOMA IN THE AFRICAN CHILD]. Acta Unio Int Contra Cancrum 1964; 20:645-7. [PMID: 14165390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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PRINGLE G. SOME FACTORS AFFECTING THE DETECTION OF RESIDUAL TRANSMISSION IN MALARIA ERADICATION SCHEMES IN AFRICA. Bull World Health Organ 1964; 30:858-62. [PMID: 14215192 PMCID: PMC2555078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023] Open
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GROUNDS JG. THE CONTACTS OF CASES OF OPEN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN KISII, KENYA. East Afr Med J 1964; 41:20-5. [PMID: 14114648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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DALLDORF G, LINSELL CA, BARNHART FE, MARTYN R. AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC APPROACH TO THE LYMPHOMAS OF AFRICAN CHILDREN AND BURKITT'S SACROMA OF THE JAWS. Perspect Biol Med 1964; 7:435-449. [PMID: 14201808 DOI: 10.1353/pbm.1964.0023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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BEECHER JL. CASE REPORT. BILATERAL MIDDLE MENINGEAL HAEMORRHAGE. East Afr Med J 1964; 41:32-3. [PMID: 14114650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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NYBOE J. EVIDENCE IN FAVOUR OF A LOW DOSE FOR THE TUBERCULIN TEST. Bull World Health Organ 1964; 30:529-44. [PMID: 14178029 PMCID: PMC2554835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023] Open
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In an attempt to solve the problem of whether a high or a low dose should be used for tuberculin testing a new method of statistical analysis is presented. It consists in tabulating the frequency of tuberculin "positive" children in households where the adults are tuberculin "positive" and tuberculin "negative" respectively; these frequencies are compiled for a wide range of arbitrarily chosen limits between "positive" and "negative" reactions. Values for these statistics have been obtained from data collected in Kenya; they strongly suggest that the reactors to the low-dose test are those infected with tubercle bacilli and the non-reactors to this test are the uninfected. However, a more detailed analysis is possible and this paper demonstrates that statistics of the type described may be used for testing the plausibility of a specific hypothesis about the patterns of tuberculin reactions among infected and uninfected persons. By testing a number of different hypotheses, the most plausible was found to be that the tuberculin sensitivities of infected and uninfected persons correspond to those of the reactors and the non-reactors to the low-dose test respectively. On the basis of the data presented it thus appears that the low-dose test is better suited than the high-dose test for distinguishing between infected and uninfected persons.
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BAKERWDE C. MELANIN DEPOSITS IN THE LYMPH GLANDS OF AFRICANS IN KENYA. East Afr Med J 1964; 41:15-9. [PMID: 14114646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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FORSYTHE-JAUCH WE. CASUALTIES IN A LARGE EAST AFRICAN CROWD. East Afr Med J 1964; 41:26-9. [PMID: 14114649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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PORTSMOUTH OH. TETANUS IN NYERI. East Afr Med J 1963; 40:643-8. [PMID: 14100842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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HALL L. ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER IN THE AFRICAN IN KENYA. East Afr Med J 1963; 40:593-600. [PMID: 14100832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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