Gawrie N L Galappaththy
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Fernando G, Jayakody S, Wijenayake W, Galappaththy G, Yatawara M, Harishchandra J
BMC Ecol
. 2018 Aug;
18(1):25.
PMID: 30107827
Background: The exotic fish Poecilia reticulata is promoted in the tropics as a biological control agent for aquatic pathogenic carriers, such as mosquitoes. Such control measures are often adopted blindly,...
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Fernando D, Wijeyaratne P, Wickremasinghe R, Abeyasinghe R, Galappaththy G, Wickremasinghe R, et al.
BMC Health Serv Res
. 2018 Mar;
18(1):202.
PMID: 29566691
Background: In special circumstances, establishing public private partnerships for malaria elimination may achieve targets faster than the state sector acting by itself. Following the end of the separatist war in...
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Kyaw T, Hlaing T, Thimasarn K, Mon K, Galappaththy G, Plasai V, et al.
WHO South East Asia J Public Health
. 2017 Jun;
3(1):90-94.
PMID: 28607262
Artemisinin resistance is a major threat to global malaria control and elimination efforts. Myanmar detected the first indication of the resistance in 2009 in the eastern part of the country,...
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Fernando A, Jayakody S, Wijenayake H, Galappaththy G, Yatawara M, Harishchandra J
Malar J
. 2016 May;
15(1):268.
PMID: 27165184
Background: In 2015 alone there were an estimated 214 million new cases of malaria across the globe and 438,000 deaths were reported. Although indigenous malaria has not been reported in...
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Hlaing T, Wai K, Oo T, Sint N, Tun Min , Myar S, et al.
BMC Public Health
. 2015 Sep;
15:886.
PMID: 26370297
Background: Areas with dynamic population movements are likely to be associated with higher levels of drug-resistant malaria. Myanmar Artemisinin Resistance Containment (MARC) Project has been launching since 2012. One of...
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Wang B, Han S, Cho C, Han J, Cheng Y, Lee S, et al.
J Clin Microbiol
. 2014 Mar;
52(6):1838-45.
PMID: 24648557
Asymptomatic infection is an important obstacle for controlling disease in countries where malaria is endemic. Because asymptomatic carriers do not seek treatment for their infections, they can have high levels...
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Galappaththy G, Tharyan P, Kirubakaran R
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
. 2013 Oct;
(10):CD004389.
PMID: 24163057
Background: Plasmodium vivax infections are an important contributor to the malaria burden worldwide. The World Health Organization recommends a 14-day course of primaquine (0.25 mg/kg/day, giving an adult dose of...
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Gueye C, Sanders K, Galappaththy G, Rundi C, Tobgay T, Sovannaroth S, et al.
Malar J
. 2013 Oct;
12:358.
PMID: 24103345
Background: Moving from malaria control to elimination requires national malaria control programmes to implement strategies to detect both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in the community. In order to do this,...
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Wickramage K, Galappaththy G, Dayarathne D, Peiris S, Basnayake R, Mosca D, et al.
Case Rep Med
. 2013 Jul;
2013:465906.
PMID: 23861687
Background. We describe an irregular migrant who returned to Sri Lanka after a failed people smuggling operation from West Africa. Results. On-arrival screening by Anti-Malaria Campaign (AMC) officers using a...
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Kirkby K, Galappaththy G, Kurinczuk J, Rajapakse S, Fernando S
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
. 2012 Dec;
107(2):110-8.
PMID: 23222949
Background: Malaria-related knowledge, preventative methods and treatment-seeking behaviours were investigated in a post-conflict district of Sri Lanka in order to guide the development of components of malaria interventions and to...