MUT REPOSITORY: Recent submissions
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Determinants of Road Traffic Accidents Among Motorcycle Riders In Four Selected Sub-Counties, Kitui County, Kenya
(IBOM MEDICAL JOURNAL, 2025)Background: Over 50 million instances of serious injuries have been documented annually, while 1.2 million instances of mortality related to traffic accidents are disclosed around the world. This study aimed to establish ... -
Assessment of Use of Medical Forensic Evidence in Investigation and Prosecution Process of Defilement Perpetrators, A Case Study of Ruiru Sub-County, Kenya
(International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health, 2023)Background: Defilement has been recognized as one of the crimes in which such a ceiling in evidential presentation is critical. According to WHO statistics, More than 95 million children are abused annually, Where Africa ... -
Assessment of Factors Influencing Utilization of Reproductive Health Services for Adolescents and Youth in Samburu County, Kenya
(International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health, 2023)Background: Globally, around 16 million teenagers give birth each year, with 95% of them coming from upcoming nations in developing nations like Kenya, youths deal with a variety of sexual and reproductive health issues. ... -
Robust Identification of Suitable T-Cell Subsets for Personalized CMV-Specific T-Cell Immunotherapy Using CD45RA and CD62L Microbeads
(Internal Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019)Viral infections and reactivations remain a serious obstacle to successful hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). When antiviral drug treatment fails, adoptive virus-specific T-cell transfer provides an effective ... -
Selected haematological markers and C-reactive protein, not AGTR1 SNP, are associated with essential hypertension in Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya
(Asian Journal of Medicine and Health, 2023)Background: Essential Hypertension (EH) accounts for majority of hypertension cases globally. Genetic factors along with haematological and biochemical changes may underlie EH and these have not been well studied in ... -
Red cell allo- and autoimmunisation in transfused sickle cell and cancer patients in Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
(Africa Journal of Labaratory Medicine, 2015)Background: Currently, no data are available on the prevalence of red blood cell (RBC) antibody formation amongst Kenyan patients with multiple transfusion needs, such as patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) or ... -
Enhancement of Antiviral T-Cell Responses by Vitamin C Suggests New Strategies to Improve Manufacturing of Virus-Specific T Cells for Adoptive Immunotherapy
(Biology, 2022)Allogeneic and autologous transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCT) are being routinely used to treat patients with leukemia and lymphoma. Due to the required immunosuppression after stem cell transplantation, ... -
CAR-T cells and TRUCKs that recognize an EBNA-3C-derived epitope presented on HLA-B*35 control Epstein-Barr virusassociated lymphoproliferation
(Journal of ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 2020)Background Immunosuppressive therapy or T-cell depletion in transplant patients can cause uncontrolled growth of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-infected B cells resulting in post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD). ... -
Variances in Antiviral Memory T-Cell Repertoire of CD45RA- and CD62L-Depleted Lymphocyte Products Reflect the Need of Individual T-Cell Selection Strategies to Reduce the Risk of GvHD while Preserving Antiviral Immunity in Adoptive T-Cell Therapy
(Transfus Med Hemother, 2021)Introduction: Viral infections and reactivations still remain a cause of morbidity and mortality after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation due to immunodeficiency and immunosuppression. Transfer of unmanipulated ... -
Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Review of Techniques, Applications, and Emerging Trends
(International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science and Engineering, 2025)The growing reliance on opaque deep learning models in critical domains has intensified the demand for transparency, accountability, and interpretability of artificial intelligence systems. Explainable Artificial Intelligence ... -
Factors influencing availability of tracer essential medicines in selected health facilities in Nyeri County, Kenya
(nternational Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health, 2021)Background: Tracer essential medicines are drugs which fully fulfil a population’s health requirements and ought to be always available allowing for a properly functioning health system all the time. They should be available ... -
Evolution in Professionalization of Sports and the Links to Gender Inequality in Management of Athletics and Football in Kenya
(Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS), 2022)The professional era of Kenyan sports has allowed women onboard as competitors while limiting their role in top management. This article argues that the interests of stakeholders influence the meaning of sports which in ... -
A Concise History of the Colonial State and Gender Inequality in Sports in Kenya
(Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS), 2024)The purpose of this article is to provide a concise history of gender dynamics in sports during the colonia period in Kenya. The interests of the state have structured issues of inclusion in Kenyan sports. Historically, ... -
GENDER ISSUES IN AFRICAN HISTORY OF FREEDOM STRUGGLE: THE CASE OF FIELD MARSHALL MUTHONI AND THE MAU MAU MOVEMENT OF KENYA, 1930- 2015
(JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY, 2016)In 1952, thousands of Kikuyu men and women took up arms in a guerilla war to drive the British out of their land. They referred to their movement as the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), popularly known as the Mau Mau. ... -
Sportswashing and the Antecedents of Sports Diplomacy in Kenya, 1920- 1964
(African Journal of History and Geography, 2024)Despite a growing body of literature on sports diplomacy in Kenya, the colonial antecedents of diplomacy through sports in the country are largely unexplored. This article delved into the colonial past to understand how ... -
Perspectives of healthcare workers on chemotherapy treatment in selected facilities in Kenya
(International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health, 2024)Healthcare workers are better placed to recognize the drivers of the cancer health care experience by patients, an important ingredient in shaping the realization of the third pillar of the Kenya National Cancer Control ... -
Effectiveness of Short Message Service Support on Adherence to Chemotherapy Treatment among Patients Attending Cancer Treatment Facilities in Kenya
(Open Journal of Nursing, 2024)Introduction: Cancer is a chronic debilitating disease that unnerves patients, communities, and nations. At some point in cancer patient’s disease experience, chemotherapy is used, and the patient is expected to adhere ... -
Activation in Cancer Survivorship in Kenya: Results of A Cluster-Randomized Trial
(Journal of Clinical Nursing & Reports, 2024)Introduction: Kenya’s cancer situation, as in the rest of the developing world, is marred by treatment access deficiencies arising from multiple foci in the continuum of health care that make survival difficult. These ... -
Financial Information Seeking Behaviour Among Women Entrepreneurs in Huye City Market, Rwanda
(Regional Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, 2025)Rationale of Study – The study interrogated the financial information-seeking behaviour of small-scale women entrepreneurs in Huye City, Rwanda – exploring their knowledge of microfinance institutions (MFIs), the financial ... -
Discursive Construction of Pandemic-Induced Teleworking Implementation: Analysis of Media Discourse
(International Journal of Media and Communication Research (IJMCR), 2025)The way media portrays an issue through its use of language influences people’s interpretations of the issue. Despite pandemic-induced teleworking having received considerable media coverage, scholarly work on the media ...