1. Subject and source Rawsonia lucida Harw. & Sond. is the type species of Rawsonia, a small genus of Flacourtiaceae represented in tropical Africa. Leaves of the plant were collected in April 1997 in Kakamega Forest in Western Kenya. Voucher specimen (DFHJJ1) was deposited in Herbarium C

We evaluated the effectiveness of installing the Olyset® Net on the ceiling in preventing the invasion of malaria vectors. This study was conducted in houses in western Kenya. The number of resting mosquitoes inside the houses reduced when the ceiling and eaves of the houses were covered with the net. The mosquito densities remained low for 9 months, until the nets were removed.

To determine previous exposure and incidence of rickettsial infections in western Kenya during 2007-2010, we conducted hospital-based surveillance. Antibodies against rickettsiae were detected in 57.4% of previously collected serum samples. In a 2008-2010 prospective study, Rickettsia felis DNA was 2.2× more likely to be detected in febrile than in afebrile persons.

Cryptosporidium muris, predominantly a rodent species of Cryptosporidium, is not normally considered a human pathogen. Recently, isolated human infections have been reported from Indonesia, Thailand, France, and Kenya. We report the first case of C. muris in a human in the Western Hemisphere. This species may be an emerging zoonotic pathogen capable of infecting humans.

Title: Evaluating the impact of a quality management intervention on post-abortion contraceptive uptake in private sector clinics in Western Kenya: a preand post-intervention study Authors: Susy Wendot ([email protected]) Rachel Scott ([email protected]) Inviolata Nafula ([email protected]) Isaac Theuri ([email protected]) Edward Ikiugu ([email protected]...

Jean Clark, President, IFHRO Josephine Raw, Australia Lili Levesque, Canada Liu Aimin, China Darley Petersen, Denmark Angelika Haendel, Germany Gemala Hatta, Indonesia Avni Pnini, Israel Sara Marchisio, Italy Janice Bryan, Jamaica Yukiko Yokobori, Japan Robert Wamalwa, Kenya Nam Kim, Korea Lourdes Palapal, The Phillipines Lorraine Nicholson, UK, President-Elect Margaret Skurka, USA Bryon Pickar...

Potamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924) from western Kenya and eastern Uganda is resurrected from synonymy and redescribed as a valid species. This taxon is compared with similar species and its distribution, ecology, and conservation status are discussed. Potamonautes loveni has been implicated in the transmission of onchocerciasis in the highland areas of parts of East Africa.

Five isolates of Rice yellow mottle virus from western Kenya were fully sequenced. One isolate of strain S4lv had been collected in 1966. Two isolates belonged to the emerging strain S4ug recently described in Uganda. Two isolates collected in 2012 are putative recombinants between the S4lv and S4ug strains.

The flea-borne rickettsioses murine typhus (Rickettsia typhi) and flea-borne spotted fever (FBSF) (Rickettsia felis) are febrile diseases distributed among humans worldwide. Murine typhus has been known to be endemic to Kenya since the 1950s, but FBSF was only recently documented in northeastern (2010) and western (2012) Kenya. To characterize the potential exposure of humans in Kenya to flea-b...

We conducted standard insecticide susceptibility testing across western Kenya and found that the Anopheles gambiae mosquito has acquired high resistance to pyrethroids and DDT, patchy resistance to carbamates, but no resistance to organophosphates. Use of non-pyrethroid-based vector control tools may be preferable for malaria prevention in this region.