Maina Ngotho
Mt. Kenya University
31 Papers
122 Citations
Maina Ngotho is an academic researcher from Mt. Kenya University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vervet monkey & Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 31 publications. Previous affiliations of Maina Ngotho include University of Copenhagen & Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.
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Papers
A Review on the Present Advances on Studies of Toxoplasmosis in Eastern Africa
TL;DR: A narrative review of published data on toxoplasmosis in Eastern Africa is provided, finding that the region is a high-risk area mainly due to the close association of humans and livestock as well as sociocultural practices, poor environmental hygiene, and poverty.
Haematology of experimental Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection in vervet monkeys
John Kagira,John K. Thuita,Maina Ngotho,R. E. Mdachi,David Mumo Mwangangi,Joseph Mathu Ndung'u +5 more
TL;DR: Haematological aberrations associated with human infective trypanosomes were investigated in the vervet monkey model of the Rhodesian sleeping sickness, and it was concluded that microcytic hypochromic anaemia, thrombocytopaenia and an initial leucocytop aenia are the most important haem atological changes associated with a chronic infection of T. rhodesiense.
Hematological changes in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) during eight months' adaptation to captivity.
TL;DR: There was an increase in most of the erythrocyte parameters studied during the monitoring period with the most significant being hemoglobin, hematocrit, and mean corpuscular volume, however, the red cell distribution widths, which were higher in adult females, declined.
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Detection of Natural Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Chicken in Thika Region of Kenya Using Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction
John Mokua Mose,John Kagira,Simon Karanja,Maina Ngotho,David Muchina Kamau,Adele Nyambura Njuguna,Naomi Maina +6 more
TL;DR: There was a high occurrence of T. gondii infection in free-range chickens from Thika region and that the infection rate is age dependent, indicating that the possible role of roaming chickens in the epidemiology of the disease among humans in the area should be investigated.
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Socioeconomic and health implications of human wildlife interactions in Nthongoni, Eastern Kenya
Danson K. Mwangi,Mercy Y. Akinyi,Fredrick Maloba,Maina Ngotho,John Kagira,David Ndeereh,Stanislaus Kivai +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was carried out in Nthongoni, an area bordering Tsavo and Chyulu Hills national parks in Kenya to understand the possible predisposing factors for zoonoses at the human-wildlife interface.
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