Geographic accessibility to public and private health facilities in Kenya in 2021: An updated geocoded inventory and spatial analysis by Moturi, AK, Suiyanka, L, Mumo, E, Snow, RW, Okiro, EA, Macharia, PM

“…<p><strong>Objectives:</strong>&nbsp;To achieve universal health coverage, adequate geographic access to quality healthcare services is vital and should be characterized periodically to support planning. However, in Kenya, previous assessments of geographic accessibility have relied on public health facility lists only, assembled several years ago. …”

Geographic accessibility to public and private health facilities in Kenya in 2021: An updated geocoded inventory and spatial analysis by Angela K. Moturi, Laurissa Suiyanka, Eda Mumo, Robert W. Snow, Robert W. Snow, Emelda A. Okiro, Emelda A. Okiro, Peter M. Macharia, Peter M. Macharia

“…ObjectivesTo achieve universal health coverage, adequate geographic access to quality healthcare services is vital and should be characterized periodically to support planning. However, in Kenya, previous assessments of geographic accessibility have relied on public health facility lists only, assembled several years ago. …”
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Modelling geographic access and school catchment areas across public primary schools to support subnational planning in Kenya by Macharia, PM, Moturi, AK, Mumo, E, Giorgi, E, Okiro, EA, Snow, RW, Ray, N

“…Understanding the location of schools relative to the population they serve is important to contextualise the time, students must travel and to define school catchment areas (SCAs) for planning. We assembled a spatio-temporal database of public primary schools (PPS), population density of school-going children (SGC), and factors affecting travel in 2009 and 2020 in Kenya. …”

Subnational estimates of factors associated with under-five mortality in Kenya: a spatio-temporal analysis, 1993-2014 by Macharia, PM, Joseph, NK, Sartorius, B, Snow, RW, Okiro, EA

“…Therefore, we aimed to provide subnational estimates of factors associated with child survival while elucidating areas of progress, stagnation and decline in Kenya. <br> <strong>Methods</strong> Twenty household surveys and three population censuses conducted since 1989 were assembled and spatially aligned to 47 subnational Kenyan county boundaries. …”

Holocene bidirectional river system along the Kenya Rift and its influence on East African faunal exchange and diversity gradients by Dommain, René, Riedl, Simon, Olaka, Lydia A., deMenocal, Peter, Deino, Alan L., Owen, R. Bernhart, Muiruri, Veronica, Müller, Johannes, Potts, Richard, Strecker, Manfred R.

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Developing a continental atlas of the distribution and trypanosomal infection of tsetse flies (Glossina species) by Giuliano Cecchi, Massimo Paone, Rafael Argilés Herrero, Marc J. B. Vreysen, Raffaele C. Mattioli

“…The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is trying to address this shortcoming through the Atlas of tsetse and African animal trypanosomosis. …”
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The impact of child health interventions and risk factors on child survival in Kenya, 1993-2014: a Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis with counterfactual scenarios by Macharia, PM, Joseph, NK, Snow, RW, Sartorius, B, Okiro, EA

“…<strong>Background</strong> During the millennium development goals period, reduction in under-five mortality (U5M) and increases in child health intervention coverage were characterised by sub-national disparities and inequities across Kenya. The contribution of changing risk factors and intervention coverage on the sub-national changes in U5M remains poorly defined. …”

Long read assemblies of geographically dispersed Plasmodium falciparum isolates reveal highly structured subtelomeres [version 1; referees: 2 approved] by Thomas D. Otto, Ulrike Böhme, Mandy Sanders, Adam Reid, Ellen I. Bruske, Craig W. Duffy, Pete C. Bull, Richard D. Pearson, Abdirahman Abdi, Sandra Dimonte, Lindsay B. Stewart, Susana Campino, Mihir Kekre, William L. Hamilton, Antoine Claessens, Sarah K. Volkman, Daouda Ndiaye, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, Mahamadou Diakite, Rick M. Fairhurst, David J. Conway, Matthias Franck, Chris I. Newbold, Matt Berriman

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Malaria prevalence metrics in low- and middle-income countries: an assessment of precision in nationally-representative surveys by Alegana, V, Wright, J, Bosco, C, Okiro, E, Atkinson, P, Snow, R, Tatem, A, Noor, A

“…However, little is known about the optimal precisions of various population-level health and development indicators that remains unquantified in nationally-representative household surveys. Here, a retrospective analysis of the precision of prevalence from these surveys was conducted.Using malaria indicators, data were assembled in nine sub-Saharan African countries with at least two nationally-representative surveys. …”

Taxonomic, Genomic, and Functional Variation in the Gut Microbiomes of Wild Spotted Hyenas Across 2 Decades of Study by Connie A. Rojas, Kay E. Holekamp, Mariette Viladomat Jasso, Valeria Souza, Jonathan A. Eisen, Kevin R. Theis

“…Here, we used 16S rRNA gene and metagenomic high-throughput sequencing to profile the bacterial taxonomic composition, genomic diversity, and metabolic function of fecal samples collected from 12 wild spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) residing in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, over a 23-year period spanning three generations. …”
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Comparative Genomic Analysis of Warthog and Sus Scrofa Identifies Adaptive Genes Associated with African Swine Fever by Wen Feng, Lei Zhou, Pengju Zhao, Heng Du, Chenguang Diao, Yu Zhang, Zhen Liu, Wenjiao Jin, Jian Yu, Jianlin Han, Edward Okoth, Raphael Mrode, Jian-Feng Liu

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The Progression in Developing Genomic Resources for Crop Improvement by Pradeep Ruperao, Parimalan Rangan, Trushar Shah, Vivek Thakur, Sanjay Kalia, Sean Mayes, Abhishek Rathore

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Genomes of the cosmopolitan fruit pest Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae) reveal its global invasion history and thermal adaptation by Yue Zhang, Shanlin Liu, Marc De Meyer, Zuxing Liao, Yan Zhao, Massimiliano Virgilio, Shiqian Feng, Yujia Qin, Sandeep Singh, Suk Ling Wee, Fan Jiang, Shaokun Guo, Hu Li, Pablo Deschepper, Sam Vanbergen, Hélène Delatte, Alies van Sauers-Muller, Tati Suryati Syamsudin, Anastasia Priscilla Kawi, Muo Kasina, Kemo Badji, Fazal Said, Lijun Liu, Zihua Zhao, Zhihong Li

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IMPROVING AWARENESS &amp; UNDERSTANDING OF ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP PROGRAMS THROUGH EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION, EDUCATION &amp; TRAINING by E. Wesangula, N. Gitonga, M. Ndanyi, L. Ndegwa

“…Intro: In 2015, the World Health Assembly endorsed the Global Action Plan (GAP) on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). …”
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<i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> parasite prevalence in East Africa: Updating data for malaria stratification. by Victor A Alegana, Peter M Macharia, Samuel Muchiri, Eda Mumo, Elvis Oyugi, Alice Kamau, Frank Chacky, Sumaiyya Thawer, Fabrizio Molteni, Damian Rutazanna, Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi, Samuel Gonahasa, Abdisalan M Noor, Robert W Snow

“…Here, a modelled estimate of <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> from an updated assembly of community parasite survey data in Kenya, mainland Tanzania, and Uganda is presented and used to provide a more contemporary understanding of the sub-national malaria prevalence stratification across the sub-region for 2019. …”
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Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence in East Africa: Updating data for malaria stratification by Victor A. Alegana, Peter M. Macharia, Samuel Muchiri, Eda Mumo, Elvis Oyugi, Alice Kamau, Frank Chacky, Sumaiyya Thawer, Fabrizio Molteni, Damian Rutazanna, Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi, Samuel Gonahasa, Abdisalan M. Noor, Robert W. Snow

“…Here, a modelled estimate of Plasmodium falciparum from an updated assembly of community parasite survey data in Kenya, mainland Tanzania, and Uganda is presented and used to provide a more contemporary understanding of the sub-national malaria prevalence stratification across the sub-region for 2019. …”
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Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence in East Africa: Updating data for malaria stratification by Alegana, VA, Macharia, PM, Muchiri, S, Mumo, E, Oyugi, E, Kamau, A, Chacky, F, Thawer, S, Molteni, F, Rutazanna, D, Maiteki-Sebuguzi, C, Gonahasa, S, Noor, AM, Snow, RW

“…Here, a modelled estimate of Plasmodium falciparum from an updated assembly of community parasite survey data in Kenya, mainland Tanzania, and Uganda is presented and used to provide a more contemporary understanding of the sub-national malaria prevalence stratification across the sub-region for 2019. …”

A geo-coded inventory of anophelines in the Afrotropical Region south of the Sahara: 1898-2016 [version 1; referees: 2 approved] by David Kyalo, Punam Amratia, Clara W. Mundia, Charles M. Mbogo, Maureen Coetzee, Robert W. Snow

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Virulent Newcastle disease virus genotypes V.3, VII.2, and XIII.1.1 and their coinfections with infectious bronchitis viruses and other avian pathogens in backyard chickens in Tanz... by Henry M. Kariithi, Henry M. Kariithi, Jeremy D. Volkening, Gaspar H. Chiwanga, Iryna V. Goraichuk, Iryna V. Goraichuk, Tim L. Olivier, Peter L. M. Msoffe, Peter L. M. Msoffe, David L. Suarez

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Microbiome and mitogenomics of the chigger mite Pentidionis agamae: potential role as an Orientia vector and associations with divergent clades of Wolbachia and Borrelia by Hadil A. Alkathiry, Samia Q. Alghamdi, Amit Sinha, Gabriele Margos, Alexandr A. Stekolnikov, Abdulaziz N. Alagaili, Alistair C. Darby, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Jing Jing Khoo

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