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Christine Bii
Researcher at Kenya Medical Research Institute
Publications - 65
Citations - 1237
Christine Bii is an academic researcher from Kenya Medical Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Antimicrobial & Candida albicans. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 62 publications receiving 925 citations. Previous affiliations of Christine Bii include Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology & Kyorin University.
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Challenges of intervention, treatment, and antibiotic resistance of biofilm-forming microorganisms.
Gebreselema Gebreyohannes,Gebreselema Gebreyohannes,Andrew Nyerere,Christine Bii,Desta Berhe Sbhatu +4 more
TL;DR: Boprospecting for quorum quenching compounds can be an appropriate solution for controlling biofilm infections, according to a review of recent research and review articles.
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Antimicrobial activity and probable mechanisms of action of medicinal plants of Kenya: Withania somnifera, Warbugia ugandensis, Prunus africana and Plectrunthus barbatus.
Peter Mwitari,Peter Mwitari,Peter Amwoga Ayeka,Peter Amwoga Ayeka,Joyce Ondicho,Esther N. Matu,Christine Bii +6 more
TL;DR: Investigation of organic extracts of Withania somnifera, Warbugia ugandensis, Prunus africana and Plectrunthus barbatus for treatment of microbial infections and cancer found both bactericidal and fungicidal activity and antimicrobial activity.
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Antimicrobial activity of Acacia mellifera extracts and lupane triterpenes.
TL;DR: These results may partly explain and support the use of Acacia mellifera stem barks for the treatment of infectious diseases in traditional Kenya medicine.
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Antifungal drug susceptibility of Cryptococcus neoformans from clinical sources in Nairobi, Kenya.
Christine Bii,Christine Bii,Koichi Makimura,Shigeru Abe,Haruhiko Taguchi,Olga M. Mugasia,Gutura Revathi,Njeri C. Wamae,Shigeru Kamiya +8 more
TL;DR: The serotypes and mating types of 80 clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from Kenya were studied and subjected to broth microdilution susceptibility testing to amphotericin B, flucytosin, fluconazole, itraconazole and miconazole to confirm all the isolates to be α‐mating type.
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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in HIV/AIDS patients at an urban district hospital in Kenya.
J.M. Chakaya,Christine Bii,L. Ng'ang'a,Evans Amukoye,T. T. Ouko,L C Muita,S. Gathua,J. Gitau,I. Odongo,J.M. Kabanga,K. Nagai,S. Suzumura,Y. Sugiura +12 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that cotrimoxazole preventive therapy may be a useful intervention in symptomatic HIV infected patients in Kenya for the prevention of PCP and may avert deaths from this disease.