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Peninah Munyua
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 54
Citations - 1353
Peninah Munyua is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Outbreak. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 44 publications receiving 1038 citations. Previous affiliations of Peninah Munyua include Kenya Medical Research Institute & University of Nairobi.
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A systematic review of Rift Valley Fever epidemiology 1931-2014.
Mark Nanyingi,Peninah Munyua,Stephen G. Kiama,G. Muchemi,Samuel M. Thumbi,Austine Bitek,Bernard K. Bett,Reese M. Muriithi,M. Kariuki Njenga +8 more
TL;DR: Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne viral zoonosis that was first isolated and characterized in 1931 in Kenya as discussed by the authors, and has been reported to cause significant losses through human illness and de...
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Rift Valley Fever Outbreak in Livestock in Kenya, 2006–2007
Peninah Munyua,Rees M. Murithi,Sherrilyn Wainwright,Jane Githinji,Allen W. Hightower,David Mutonga,Joseph M. Macharia,Peter Ithondeka,Joseph O. Musaa,Robert F. Breiman,Peter B. Bloland,M. Kariuki Njenga +11 more
TL;DR: Analysis of livestock and human data suggests that livestock infections occur before virus detection in humans, as supported by clustering of human RVF cases around livestock cases in Baringo district.
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Linking Human Health and Livestock Health: A “One-Health” Platform for Integrated Analysis of Human Health, Livestock Health, and Economic Welfare in Livestock Dependent Communities
Samuel M. Thumbi,M. Kariuki Njenga,Thomas L. Marsh,Susan Noh,Elkanah Otiang,Peninah Munyua,Linus Ochieng,Eric Ogola,Jonathan K. Yoder,Allan Audi,Joel M. Montgomery,Godfrey Bigogo,Robert F. Breiman,Guy H. Palmer,Terry F. McElwain +14 more
TL;DR: This study platform provides a unique longitudinal dataset that allows for the determination and quantification of linkages between human and animal health, including the impact of healthy animals on human disease averted, malnutrition, household educational attainment, and income levels.
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Rift Valley fever in Kenya: history of epizootics and identification of vulnerable districts
Rees M. Murithi,Peninah Munyua,Peter Ithondeka,Joseph M. Macharia,Allen W. Hightower,Elizabeth T. Luman,Robert F. Breiman,M. Kariuki Njenga +7 more
TL;DR: Findings suggests that once introduced into certain permissive ecologies, the RVF virus becomes enzootic, making the region vulnerable to periodic epizootics that were probably precipitated by amplification of resident virus associated with heavy rainfall and flooding.
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Prioritization of Zoonotic Diseases in Kenya, 2015.
Peninah Munyua,Austine Bitek,Eric Osoro,Emily G. Pieracci,Josephat Muema,Athman Mwatondo,Mathew Kungu,Mark Nanyingi,Mark Nanyingi,Radhika Gharpure,Kariuki Njenga,Kariuki Njenga,Samuel M. Thumbi,Samuel M. Thumbi +13 more
TL;DR: A ranked list of zoonotic diseases that would guide allocation of resources to enhance their surveillance, prevention, and control in Kenya was developed and anthrax, trypanosomiasis, rabies, brucellosis and Rift Valley fever were top five priority diseases.