{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,23]],"date-time":"2026-08-23T17:17:56Z","timestamp":1787505476550,"version":"build-2736575974"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Journal of Infection in Developing Countries","issue":"08","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J Infect Dev Ctries"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Introduction: Kenya is a developing country with a high rate of tuberculosis (TB) and a moderate HIV infection burden. No estimate of the burden of fungal diseases in Kenya is published. Methodology: We used specific populations at risk and fungal infection frequencies from the literature to estimate national incidence or prevalence of serious fungal infections. Used sources were: 2010 WHO TB statistics, Kenya Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Epidemic Update 2012, Kenya Facts and figures 2012, Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009. Results: Of Kenya\u2019s population of ~40 million, 43% are under 15 years old and approximately 594,660 Kenyan women get &gt;4 episodes Candida vulvovaginitis annually (2,988\/100,000). The HIV\/AIDS population at risk of opportunistic infections (OI) is 480,000 and the OI estimates include 306,000 patients with oral thrush (768\/100,000), 114,000 with oesophageal candidiasis (286\/100,000), 11,900 with cryptococcal meningitis (29\/100,000) and 17,000 patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia (42\/100,000). Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis following TB has a prevalence of 10,848 cases (32\/100,000). The adult asthma prevalence is 3.1% and assuming 2.5% have allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis then 17,696 (44\/100,000) are affected.\u00a0 Invasive aspergillosis, candidaemia and Candida peritonitis are probably uncommon. Tinea capitis infects 9.6% of children in Kenya, while fungal keratitis and otomycoses are difficult to estimate. Conclusion: At any one time, about 7% of the Kenyan population suffers from a significant fungal infection, with recurrent vaginitis and tinea capitis accounting for 82% of the infections. These estimates require further epidemiological studies for validation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3855\/jidc.7614","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,31]],"date-time":"2016-08-31T16:08:10Z","timestamp":1472659690000},"page":"777-784","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":30,"title":["Estimated burden of fungal infections in Kenya"],"prefix":"10.3855","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"John Abuga","family":"Guto","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christine C","family":"Bii","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David W","family":"Denning","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2222","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,31]]},"container-title":["The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/jidc.org\/index.php\/journal\/article\/download\/27580321\/1551","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/jidc.org\/index.php\/journal\/article\/download\/27580321\/1551","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,25]],"date-time":"2019-06-25T00:17:14Z","timestamp":1561421834000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/jidc.org\/index.php\/journal\/article\/view\/27580321"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,31]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"08","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,31]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3855\/jidc.7614","relation":{},"ISSN":["1972-2680"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1972-2680","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,31]]}}}