Rabindra R Abeyasinghe
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Recent Articles
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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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Deepika Fernando S, Navaratne C, Galappaththy G, Abeyasinghe R, Silva N, Wickermasinghe R
J Glob Infect Dis
. 2014 Mar;
5(4):127-30.
PMID: 24672172
Background: With Sri Lanka aiming towards malaria elimination by 2015, the National Anti Malaria Campaign has stressed on the importance of identification of the species of Plasmodium either by examination...
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Abeyasinghe R, Galappaththy G, Gueye C, Kahn J, Feachem R
PLoS One
. 2012 Sep;
7(8):e43162.
PMID: 22952642
Background: Sri Lanka has a long history of malaria control, and over the past decade has had dramatic declines in cases amid a national conflict. A case study of Sri...
4.
Gunasekera W, Abeyasinghe R, Premawansa S, Fernando S
Am J Trop Med Hyg
. 2011 Jul;
85(1):6-11.
PMID: 21734117
This study determines the use of nested PCR as a diagnostic tool to supplement field microscopy in symptomatic individuals suspected of being positive for malaria, and it explores its role...
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Feachem R, Phillips A, Hwang J, Cotter C, Wielgosz B, Greenwood B, et al.
Lancet
. 2010 Nov;
376(9752):1566-78.
PMID: 21035842
In the past 150 years, roughly half of the countries in the world eliminated malaria. Nowadays, there are 99 endemic countries-67 are controlling malaria and 32 are pursuing an elimination...
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Moonen B, Cohen J, Snow R, Slutsker L, Drakeley C, Smith D, et al.
Lancet
. 2010 Nov;
376(9752):1592-603.
PMID: 21035841
Present elimination strategies are based on recommendations derived during the Global Malaria Eradication Program of the 1960s. However, many countries considering elimination nowadays have high intrinsic transmission potential and, without...
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Gunawardena S, Karunaweera N, Ferreira M, Phone-Kyaw M, Pollack R, Alifrangis M, et al.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
. 2010 Feb;
82(2):235-42.
PMID: 20133999
Genetic diversity and population structure of Plasmodium vivax parasites can predict the origin and spread of novel variants within a population enabling population specific malaria control measures. We analyzed the...
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Fernando S, Abeyasinghe R, Galappaththy G, Rajapaksa L
Am J Trop Med Hyg
. 2009 Oct;
81(5):763-7.
PMID: 19861607
As the goal of malaria elimination from Sri Lanka is currently being pursued, this study was planned to determine the prevalence of asymptomatic malaria infections. Five health areas in Trincomalee...