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Laura Mwalekwa

Daily co-trimoxazole prophylaxis to prevent mortality in children with complicated severe acute malnutrition: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial
2016 · James A Berkley, Moses Ngari, et al. · The Lancet Global Health · 138
Systemic inflammation and metabolic disturbances underlie inpatient mortality among ill children with severe malnutrition
2022 · Bijun Wen, James M. Njunge, et al. · Science Advances · 49
A reduced-carbohydrate and lactose-free formulation for stabilization among hospitalized children with severe acute malnutrition: A double-blind, randomized controlled trial
2019 · Robert H. J. Bandsma, Wieger Voskuijl, et al. · PLoS Medicine · 39
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Changes in susceptibility to life-threatening infections after treatment for complicated severe malnutrition in Kenya
2018 · Moses M Ngari, Laura Mwalekwa, et al. · American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 37
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Diagnostic performance of visible severe wasting for identifying severe acute malnutrition in children admitted to hospital in Kenya
2011 · Polycarp Mogeni, Hemed Twahir, et al. · Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 34
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Signs of illness in Kenyan infants aged less than 60 days.
2004 · Mike English, Mwanajuma Ngama, et al. · PubMed · 31
Linear growth following complicated severe malnutrition: 1-year follow-up cohort of Kenyan children
2018 · Moses M Ngari, Per Ole Iversen, et al. · Archives of Disease in Childhood · 30
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Predicting the risk of mortality during hospitalization in sick severely malnourished children using daily evaluation of key clinical warning signs
2021 · Bijun Wen, Daniella Brals, et al. · BMC Medicine · 28
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Performance of three rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis in children with severe acute malnutrition and diarrhoea
2019 · Joseph Bitilinyu-Bangoh, Wieger Voskuijl, et al. · Infectious Diseases of Poverty · 22
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Dosing of Ceftriaxone and Metronidazole for Children With Severe Acute Malnutrition
2018 · Joseph F. Standing, Martin O. Ongas, et al. · Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics · 22
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The impact of rickets on growth and morbidity during recovery among children with complicated severe acute malnutrition in Kenya: A cohort study
2017 · Moses M. Ngari, Johnstone Thitiri, et al. · Maternal and Child Nutrition · 18
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Fractional Doses of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine — A Noninferiority Trial
2024 · Katherine E. Gallagher, Ruth Lucinde, et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 13
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Genetic variation in VAC14 is associated with bacteremia secondary to diverse pathogens in African children
2018 · James J. Gilchrist, Alexander J. Mentzer, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 13
Intestinal disturbances associated with mortality of children with complicated severe malnutrition
2023 · Bijun Wen, Amber Farooqui, et al. · Communications Medicine · 11
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Phenotype is sustained during hospital readmissions following treatment for complicated severe malnutrition among Kenyan children: A retrospective cohort study
2019 · Gerard Bryan Gonzales, Moses M. Ngari, et al. · Maternal and Child Nutrition · 11
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Prediction of mortality in severe acute malnutrition in hospitalized children by faecal volatile organic compound analysis: proof of concept
2020 · Deborah A. van den Brink, Tim de Meij, et al. · Scientific Reports · 8
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Risk of pneumococcal bacteremia in Kenyan children with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
2020 · James J. Gilchrist, Sophie Uyoga, et al. · BMC Medicine · 7
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Catastrophic expenditure associated with childhood hospitalisation for acute illness in Kenya and Uganda: a cross-sectional study
2025 · Julie Jemutai, Rebecca Gathoni Njuguna, et al. · BMJ Public Health · 5
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An adaptive multiarm randomised trial of biomedical and psychosocial interventions to improve convalescence following severe acute malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: Co-SAM trial protocol
2025 · Mutsa Bwakura-Dangarembizi, Beatrice Amadi, et al. · BMJ Open · 3
Determining the dose-response relationship for pneumococcal conjugate vaccines: a nested analysis of the fractional dose PCV trial
2026 · Irene Martinez-de-Albeniz, Christian Bottomley, et al. · Vaccine · 1
Replication Data for: Intestinal Disturbances Associated with Mortality of Children with Complicated Severe Malnutrition
2023 · Wen, Bijun, Farooqui, Amber, et al. · University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) · 1
Replication Data for: Systemic inflammation and metabolic disturbances underlie inpatient mortality among ill children with severe malnutrition
2021 · Wen, Bijun, Njunge, James M., et al. · Harvard Dataverse · 1
Replication Data for: Recurrent illness, persistent gut dysfunction and catabolic growth-mediator profiles constrain post-discharge growth recovery after complicated severe malnutrition
2026 · Ochieng, Lina A., Mudibo, Evans, et al. · Harvard Dataverse
Persistent immune, coagulation and cardiac dysregulation are correlated with later post-discharge mortality in children with severe malnutrition
2026 · Brenda Kamau, Evans O. Mudibo, et al. · BMC Medicine
Additional file 2 of Persistent immune, coagulation and cardiac dysregulation are correlated with later post-discharge mortality in children with severe malnutrition
2026 · Kamau, Brenda, Mudibo, Evans O., et al. · Figshare
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Citation count: 522
H-index: 13
I10-index: 15
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