Francis Mutuku

Dados Biográficos

ID7007724
NOMEFrancis Mutuku
PRENOMESFrancis
SOBRENOMEMutuku
ASSINATURAMUTUKU F
AFILIAÇÕESTechnical University of Mombasa
ORCID0000-0002-9000-7008
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • School and home-based educational intervention in urban Kenya

    Open AccessPrathik Kalva, Jenna Forsyth et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are the primary vectors for important arboviral health threats including chikungunya (CHIKV) and dengue (DENV) viruses, primarily breeding in domestic plastic containers. Previous studies have highlighted a severe lack of knowledge about non-malarial mosquito-borne diseases in Kenya, so we proposed a household and school-based educational intervention in urban coastal Kenya to determine whether it could bring about long-t…

  • Antibiotic prescribing patterns at outpatient clinics in Western and Coastal Kenya

    Open AccessMelanie Kiener, Caroline Ichura et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Antimicrobial resistant pathogens are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with overuse and misuse of antimicrobials being key contributors. We aimed to identify factors associated with antibiotic prescriptions among patients presenting to clinics in Kenya. We performed a retrospective, descriptive cohort study of persons presenting to outpatient clinics in Western and Coastal Kenya, including symptoms, physical exams, clinician …

  • Helminthiasis and malaria co-infection among women of reproductive age in a rural setting of Kilifi County, coastal Kenya

    Open AccessJanet Masaku, Francis Mutuku et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Soil transmitted helminthiasis (STH), Schistosoma haematobium and malaria co-infection lead to increased susceptibility to other infections and poor pregnancy outcomes among women of reproductive age (WRA). This study sought to establish risk factors, burden of co-infection with STH, S . haematobium and Plasmodium sp. among WRA in Kilifi County, Kenya.A mixed method cross-sectional study was conducted on 474 WRA in 2021. Simple random sampling wa…

  • Top 5 Things Health Professions Students Should Know About Ecology and Waste Management

    Open AccessJoelle I Rosser, Orion X Lavery et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2024

    The environments in which we live affect individual and community risk for disease transmission and illness severity. Communities' and neighborhoods' waste stream management designs and health care organizations' spatial and structural architecture also influence individuals' and communities' pathogenic vulnerabilities and how well health sector industrial hygiene practices support them. This article describes a One Health approach to planetary e…

  • Detection of acute dengue virus infection, with and without concurrent malaria infection, in a cohort of febrile children in Kenya, 2014–2019, by clinicians or machine learning algorithms

    Open AccessDavid M Vu, Amy Krystosik et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Poor access to diagnostic testing in resource limited settings restricts surveillance for emerging infections, such as dengue virus (DENV), to clinician suspicion, based on history and exam observations alone. We investigated the ability of machine learning to detect DENV based solely on data available at the clinic visit. We extracted symptom and physical exam data from 6,208 pediatric febrile illness visits to Kenyan public health clinics from …

  • Urban risk factors for human Rift Valley fever virus exposure in Kenya

    Open AccessKeli Nicole Gerken, Francis Mutuku et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a zoonotic arbovirus that can also transmit directly to humans from livestock. Previous studies have shown consumption of sick animal products are risk factors for RVFV infection, but it is difficult to disentangle those risk factors from other livestock rearing activities. Urban areas have an increased demand for animal source foods, different vector distributions, and various arboviruses are understood to e…

  • Majority of pediatric dengue virus infections in Kenya do not meet 2009 WHO criteria for dengue diagnosis

    Open AccessAslam Khan, Bryson A Ndenga et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    From 1975–2009, the WHO guidelines classified symptomatic dengue virus infections as dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever, and dengue shock syndrome. In 2009 the case definition was changed to a clinical classification after concern the original criteria was challenging to apply in resource-limited settings and not inclusive of a substantial proportion of severe dengue cases. Our goal was to examine how well the current WHO definition identifie…

  • Schistosomiasis, soil transmitted helminthiasis, and malaria co-infections among women of reproductive age in rural communities of Kwale County, coastal Kenya

    Open AccessVictor Tunje Jeza, Francis Mutuku et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The use of improved WASH activities might have contributed to the low prevalence of STHs and S. haematobium infections. Further, bed net ownership and usage might have resulted in the low prevalence of Plasmodium sp. infections observed

  • Solid Wastes Provide Breeding Sites, Burrows, and Food for Biological Disease Vectors, and Urban Zoonotic Reservoirs

    Open AccessAmy Krystosik, Gathenji Njoroge et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2020

    Background: Infectious disease epidemiology and planetary health literature often cite solid waste and plastic pollution as risk factors for vector-borne diseases and urban zoonoses; however, no rigorous reviews of the risks to human health have been published since 1994. This paper aims to identify research gaps and outline potential solutions to interrupt the vicious cycle of solid wastes; disease vectors and reservoirs; infection and disease; …