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Pathology, East Africa

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Aga Khan University, Nairobi Campus is deeply committed to providing excellence in teaching and training residents in the disciplines of anatomical and clinical pathology, basic and translational research, scholarship and diagnostic services of the highest standard in the region. We boast a team of highly trained and skilled technical personnel and 15 expert-specialist faculty involved in collaborative and multidisciplinary research

Submissions from 1997 1997

Social and cultural factors affecting rates of regular retreatment of mosquito nets with insecticide in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania, P.J. Winch, A.M. Makemba, V.R. Makame, M.S. Mfaume, M.C. Lynch, Zul Premji, J.N. Minjas, and C.J. Shiff

Submissions from 1996 1996

Treatment practices for degedege, a locally recognized febrile illness, and implications for strategies to decrease mortality from severe malaria in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania, A.M. Makemba, P.J. Winch, V.M. Makame, G.L. Mehl, Zul Premji, J.N. Minjas, and C.J. Shiff

Changes in weight gain and anaemia attributable to malaria in Tanzanian children living under holoendemic conditions, C. Shiff, W. Checkley, P. Winch, Zul Premji, J. Minjas, and P. Lubega

Local terminology for febrile illnesses in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania and its impact on the design of a community-based malaria control programme, P.J. Winch, A.M. Makemba, S.R. Kamazima, M. Lurie, G.K. Lwihula, Zul Premji, J.N. Minjas, and C.J. Shiff

Submissions from 1995 1995

Efficacy of oral and intravenous artesunate in male Tanzanian adults with Plasmodium falciparum malaria and in vitro susceptibility to artemisinin, chloroquine, and mefloquine, M.H. Alin, C.M. Kihamia, A. Bjorkman, B.A. Bwijo, Z. Premji, G.J.B. Mtey, and M. Ashton

Anaemia and Plasmodium falciparum infections among young children in an holoendemic area, Bagamoyo, Tanzania, Zul Premji, Y. Hamisi, C. Shiff, J. Minjas, P. Lubega, and C. Makwaya

Changes in malaria associated morbidity in children using insecticide treated mosquito nets in the Bagamoyo District of Coastal Tanzania, Zul Premji, P. Lubega, Y. Hamisi, E. Mchopa, J. Minjus, W. Checkley, and C. Shiff

Insecticide-treated bed nets in control of malaria in Africa, C. Shiff, Zul Premji, and J. Minjas

Submissions from 1994 1994

Chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum in coastal Tanzania. A challenge to the continued strategy of village based chemotherapy for malaria control, Zul Premji, J.N. Minjas, and C.J. Shiff

Laboratory diagnosis of malaria by village health workers using the rapid manual ParaSight™-F test, Zul Premji, J.N. Minjas, and C.J. Shiff

The PoroSightR-F test: A simple rapid manual dipstick test to detect Plasmodium falciparum infection, C.J. Shiff, J. Minjas, and Zul Premji

Submissions from 1993 1993

The rapid manual ParaSight®-F test. A new diagnostic tool for Plasmodium falciparum infection, C.J. Shiff, Zul Premji, and J.N. Minjas

Submissions from 1990 1990

Standard and reduced doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for treatment of Plasmodium falciparum in Tanzania, with determination of drug concentrations and susceptibility in vitro, U. Hellgren, C.M. Kihamia, Y. Bergqvist, M. Lebbad, Zul Premji, and L. Rombo

Submissions from 1989 1989

Local anaesthetic cream for the alleviation of pain during venepuncture in Tanzanian schoolchidren, U. Hellgren, C.M. Kihamia, Zul Premji, and K. Danielson