Dr. Mary Jean Hamel M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
KEMRI CDC RESEARCH STATION APO AE, 09831About
Dr. Mary Hamel is an infectious disease specialist practicing in APO, AE. Dr. Hamel specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Efficacy of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole compared with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus erythromycin for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in children with integrated management of childhood illness dual classifications of malaria and pneumonia.
- HIV immunosuppression and antimalarial efficacy: sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in HIV-infected adults in Siaya, Kenya.
- The effect of health care worker training on the use of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in rural western Kenya.
- Mortality of sick children after outpatient treatment at first-level health facilities in rural western Kenya.
- Malaria and anaemia among pregnant women at first antenatal clinic visit in Kisumu, western Kenya.
- Dihydrofolate reductase I164L mutations in Plasmodium falciparum isolates: clinical outcome of 14 Kenyan adults infected with parasites harbouring the I164L mutation.
- An occasion for pause and reflection--challenges to public health during times of instability: a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kenya Medical Research Institute on the post-election violence in Kenya.
- Modeling the financial and clinical implications of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in the case-management of older children and adults in Kenya.
- Pre-departure and post-arrival management of P. falciparum malaria in refugees relocating from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States.
- Plasma folate level and high-dose folate supplementation predict sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine treatment failure in pregnant women in Western kenya who have uncomplicated malaria.
- Trends observed during a decade of paediatric sick visits to peripheral health facilities in rural western Kenya, 1997-2006.
- In-vivo efficacy of amodiaquine-artesunate in children with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in western Kenya.
- Effect of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on the management of uncomplicated malaria with artemether-lumefantrine in Kenya: a cluster randomized trial.
- Community response to intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) delivered through the expanded programme of immunization in five African settings.
- Anopheles gambiae: historical population decline associated with regional distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets in western Nyanza Province, Kenya.
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