R W Snow

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Country: Kenya

Publications

  1. ncbi Risk of severe malaria among African infants: direct evidence of clinical protection during early infancy
    R W Snow
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    J Infect Dis 177:819-22. 1998
  2. ncbi Effects of revised diagnostic recommendations on malaria treatment practices across age groups in Kenya
    D Zurovac
    Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trop Med Int Health 13:784-7. 2008
  3. ncbi Microscopy and outpatient malaria case management among older children and adults in Kenya
    D Zurovac
    Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trop Med Int Health 11:432-40. 2006
  4. ncbi Translation of artemether-lumefantrine treatment policy into paediatric clinical practice: an early experience from Kenya
    D Zurovac
    Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trop Med Int Health 13:99-107. 2008
  5. ncbi Models to predict the intensity of Plasmodium falciparum transmission: applications to the burden of disease in Kenya
    R W Snow
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 92:601-6. 1998
  6. ncbi Modelling malaria risk in East Africa at high-spatial resolution
    J A Omumbo
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trop Med Int Health 10:557-66. 2005
  7. ncbi Fever prevalence and management among three rural communities in the North West Zone, Somalia
    R M Youssef
    Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    East Mediterr Health J 16:595-601. 2010
  8. ncbi Mapping malaria transmission intensity using geographical information systems (GIS): an example from Kenya
    J Omumbo
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Ann Trop Med Parasitol 92:7-21. 1998
  9. ncbi Malaria in pregnancy as an indirect cause of infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
    H L Guyatt
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, P O Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 95:569-76. 2001
  10. ncbi A preliminary continental risk map for malaria mortality among African children
    R W Snow
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, PO Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
    Parasitol Today 15:99-104. 1999

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Detail Information

Publications19

  1. ncbi Risk of severe malaria among African infants: direct evidence of clinical protection during early infancy
    R W Snow
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    J Infect Dis 177:819-22. 1998
    ....
  2. ncbi Effects of revised diagnostic recommendations on malaria treatment practices across age groups in Kenya
    D Zurovac
    Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trop Med Int Health 13:784-7. 2008
    ..We evaluated the impact of these age-specific recommendations on routine malaria treatment practices 4-6 months after AL treatment was implemented...
  3. ncbi Microscopy and outpatient malaria case management among older children and adults in Kenya
    D Zurovac
    Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trop Med Int Health 11:432-40. 2006
    ..To evaluate the accuracy of routine malaria microscopy, and appropriate use and interpretation of malaria slides under operational conditions in Kenya...
  4. ncbi Translation of artemether-lumefantrine treatment policy into paediatric clinical practice: an early experience from Kenya
    D Zurovac
    Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trop Med Int Health 13:99-107. 2008
    ..To describe the quality of outpatient paediatric malaria case-management approximately 4-6 months after artemether-lumefantrine (AL) replaced sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) as the nationally recommended first-line therapy in Kenya...
  5. ncbi Models to predict the intensity of Plasmodium falciparum transmission: applications to the burden of disease in Kenya
    R W Snow
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 92:601-6. 1998
    ..Despite several limitations, such an approach goes beyond 'best guesses' to provide informed estimates of the geographical burden of malaria and its fatal consequences in Kenya...
  6. ncbi Modelling malaria risk in East Africa at high-spatial resolution
    J A Omumbo
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trop Med Int Health 10:557-66. 2005
    ..In Sub-Saharan Africa empirically derived maps using standardized criteria are few and this paper considers the development of a model of malaria risk for East Africa...
  7. ncbi Fever prevalence and management among three rural communities in the North West Zone, Somalia
    R M Youssef
    Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    East Mediterr Health J 16:595-601. 2010
    ..5%) fever cases were managed at a formal health care facility: 7 within 24 hours and 10 within 24-72 hours of onset. None of the fevers were investigated for malaria; they were treated with antibiotics, antipyretics and vitamins...
  8. ncbi Mapping malaria transmission intensity using geographical information systems (GIS): an example from Kenya
    J Omumbo
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Ann Trop Med Parasitol 92:7-21. 1998
    ....
  9. ncbi Malaria in pregnancy as an indirect cause of infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
    H L Guyatt
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, P O Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 95:569-76. 2001
    ..This may explain the high reduction in infant mortality rates from interventions aimed at reducing transmission, over and above that expected from a decline in direct malaria-specific mortality alone...
  10. ncbi A preliminary continental risk map for malaria mortality among African children
    R W Snow
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, PO Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
    Parasitol Today 15:99-104. 1999
    ....
  11. ncbi The financial and clinical implications of adult malaria diagnosis using microscopy in Kenya
    D Zurovac
    Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trop Med Int Health 11:1185-94. 2006
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  12. ncbi Estimating mortality, morbidity and disability due to malaria among Africa's non-pregnant population
    R W Snow
    Kenya Medical Research Institute KEMRI Wellcome Trust, Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Bull World Health Organ 77:624-40. 1999
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  13. ncbi The quality of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine products in the Kenyan retail sector
    A A Amin
    Centre for Geographic Medicine, Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    J Clin Pharm Ther 30:559-65. 2005
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  14. ncbi The epidemiology and burden of Plasmodium falciparum-related anemia among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa
    H L Guyatt
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 64:36-44. 2001
    ..2%. Assuming that 26% of these cases are due to malaria, it is suggested that as many as 400,000 pregnant women may have developed severe anemia as a result of infection with malaria in sub-Saharan Africa in 1995...
  15. ncbi Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence in East Africa: a review
    J A Omumbo
    Public Health Group, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme PO. Box 43640, 00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya
    East Afr Med J 81:649-56. 2004
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Models are required to define malaria risk in areas of East Africa where no empirical data are available so that limited resources can be better targeted to those in greatest need...
  16. ncbi The past, present and future of childhood malaria mortality in Africa
    R W Snow
    The Wellcome Trust Kenya Medical Research Institute Collaborative Programme, PO Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trends Parasitol 17:593-7. 2001
    ..This article attempts to re-construct the evidence for the trends in childhood mortality as a result of Plasmodium falciparum infection over the last century in Africa...
  17. ncbi The influence of urbanisation on measures of Plasmodium falciparum infection prevalence in East Africa
    J A Omumbo
    Public Health Group, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, P O Box 43640, 00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya
    Acta Trop 93:11-21. 2005
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  18. ncbi The quality of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine prescriptions, counselling and drug-dispensing practices, for children in Kenya
    D Zurovac
    KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, P. O. Box 43640, 00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya
    Ann Trop Med Parasitol 99:321-4. 2005
  19. ncbi Travel as a risk factor for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the highlands of western Kenya
    G D Shanks
    US Army Medical Research Unit Kenya, Box 30137, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 99:71-4. 2005
    ..An increase in population gametocytaemia is possibly due to increased chloroquine resistance and suppressed infections contracted outside of the tea estates...