Cellulose is an inexpensive, renewable, bio-based and an abundant raw material suitable for the development of filter membranes for water purification. This is because it has numerous functional groups that afford ease of modification to create active surfaces upon chemical modif...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/28548
Water currently consumed by rural residents in Kenya far exceeds drinking water guideline values proposed by the World Health Organization. The basement and alluvial formations are known to exhibit poor water quality, with predominantly slightly saline water at greater depths esp...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2016/30176
Antimicrobial resistance has proved to be a great burden to the current health care system as more potent drugs are required to combat this global challenge. Due to this problem there was need to explore new ways that would eradicate drug resistance hence the need to utilize the...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2018/45799
C. Mburu, P. G. Kareru, C. Kipyegon, E. S. Madivoli, E. G. Maina, P. K. Kairigo, P. K. Kimani & D. M. Marikah·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2016
In Kenya, 22 million people are at risk of malaria, 70% of them are in rural areas, and most of these people use traditional plant-based medicines to treat malaria. The use of natural product-derived drugs and drugs from other sources in combating malaria has however been faced w...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/26649