Vasantha Devasiri
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Bodinayake C, Nagahawatte A, Devasiri V, Arachichi W, Kurukulasooriya R, Sheng T, et al.
BMJ Public Health
. 2025 Feb;
1(1):e000073.
PMID: 40017865
Introduction: Acute febrile illness (AFI) is a common cause of hospital admissions in tropical settings. Identifying AFI aetiology is essential for guiding clinicians' diagnoses and developing diagnostic and management guidelines....
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Medrano P, Weerasinghe N, Nagahawatte A, Vanderburg S, Park L, Wijayaratne G, et al.
PLoS One
. 2024 Jun;
19(6):e0304690.
PMID: 38861513
Background: Antimicrobial overprescription is common for lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI), as viral and bacterial infections generally present with similar clinical features. Overprescription is associated with downstream antimicrobial resistance. This...
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Ko E, Reller M, Tillekeratne L, Bodinayake C, Miller C, Burke T, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2023 Dec;
13(1):22554.
PMID: 38110534
Diagnostic limitations challenge management of clinically indistinguishable acute infectious illness globally. Gene expression classification models show great promise distinguishing causes of fever. We generated transcriptional data for a 294-participant (USA,...
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Bodinayake C, Nagahawatte A, Devasiri V, Dahanayake N, Wijayaratne G, Weerasinghe N, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
. 2022 May;
16(5):e0010498.
PMID: 35639670
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010091.].
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Bodinayake C, Nagahawatte A, Devasiri V, Dahanayake N, Wijayaratne G, Weerasinghe N, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
. 2021 Dec;
15(12):e0010091.
PMID: 34962920
Background: Healthcare systems in dengue-endemic countries are often overburdened due to the high number of patients hospitalized according to dengue management guidelines. We systematically evaluated clinical outcomes in a large...
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Tsalik E, Fiorino C, Aqeel A, Liu Y, Henao R, Ko E, et al.
Front Immunol
. 2021 Nov;
12:741837.
PMID: 34777354
Viruses cause a wide spectrum of clinical disease, the majority being acute respiratory infections (ARI). In most cases, ARI symptoms are similar for different viruses although severity can be variable....
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Vanderburg S, Wijayaratne G, Danthanarayana N, Jayamaha J, Piyasiri B, Halloluwa C, et al.
BMJ Open
. 2020 Nov;
10(11):e040612.
PMID: 33158834
Objectives: To determine aetiology of illness among children and adults presenting during outbreak of severe respiratory illness in Southern Province, Sri Lanka, in 2018. Design: Prospective, cross-sectional study. Setting: 1600-bed,...
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Tillekeratne L, Suchindran S, Ko E, Petzold E, Bodinayake C, Nagahawatte A, et al.
Open Forum Infect Dis
. 2020 Jul;
7(6):ofaa194.
PMID: 32617371
Background: Pathogen-based diagnostics for acute respiratory infection (ARI) have limited ability to detect etiology of illness. We previously showed that peripheral blood-based host gene expression classifiers accurately identify bacterial and...
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Mutucumarana C, Bodinayake C, Nagahawatte A, Devasiri V, Kurukulasooriya R, Anuradha T, et al.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
. 2019 Dec;
114(6):408-414.
PMID: 31885050
Background: Dengue is a major cause of acute febrile illness in Sri Lanka. Dengue has historically been considered an urban disease. In 2012-2013, we documented that acute dengue was surprisingly...
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Tillekeratne L, Bodinayake C, Simmons R, Nagahawatte A, Devasiri V, Kodikara Arachchi W, et al.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
. 2018 Dec;
100(3):672-680.
PMID: 30594268
The contribution of respiratory viruses to acute febrile illness (AFI) burden is poorly characterized. We describe the prevalence, seasonality, and clinical features of respiratory viral infection among AFI admissions in...