Yamuna Siriwardana
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Recent Articles
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Deepachandi B, Weerasinghe S, Gunathileka H, Soysa P, Siriwardana Y
Exp Parasitol
. 2024 Feb;
259:108710.
PMID: 38350521
Sri Lanka reports a large focus of Leishmania donovani caused cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). Subsequent emergence of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was also reported recently. Expansion of the on-going disease outbreak and...
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Deepachandi B, Weerasinghe S, Soysa P, Chatterjee M, Siriwardana Y
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
. 2022 Dec;
105(3):115873.
PMID: 36543026
Sri Lanka reports a focus of L. donovani induced cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). Our more recent parasite and clinical studies and historical evidence point towards long term existence of Leishmania in...
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Deepachandi B, Ejazi S, Bhattacharyya A, Ali N, Soysa P, Siriwardana Y
Parasitol Int
. 2022 Aug;
92:102660.
PMID: 36038060
An in-house enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on crude antigen of Leishmania reported a high sero-prevalence (82.0%) in Leishmania donovani induced cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Sri Lanka. ELISA was further...
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Siriwardana Y, Deepachandi B, Weerasinghe S, Karunaweera N, Udagedara C, Warnasuriya W, et al.
Biomed Res Int
. 2021 Feb;
2021:3537968.
PMID: 33575327
Sri Lanka reports a large focus of -induced cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) with CL as the main clinical entity. Two independent, long existed, and clinicoepidemiologically different transmission foci in the northern...
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Deepachandi B, Weerasinghe S, Ranasinghe S, Andrahennadi T, Wickramanayake M, Siri S, et al.
Biomed Res Int
. 2020 Nov;
2020:5271657.
PMID: 33145352
Posing a threat to the ongoing leishmaniasis elimination efforts in the Indian subcontinent, -induced cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) has been recently reported in many countries. Sri Lanka reports a large focus...
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Deepachandi B, Weerasinghe S, Gunathilake H, Andrahennadi T, Wickramanayake M, Siri S, et al.
Int J Anal Chem
. 2020 Aug;
2020:9289651.
PMID: 32733568
Human leishmaniasis which is considered a neglected tropical parasitic disease presents in three main clinical forms (i.e., cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL), and visceral leishmaniasis (VL)) that are mainly...
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Deepachandi B, Weerasinghe S, Andrahennadi T, Karunaweera N, Wickramarachchi N, Soysa P, et al.
Int J Anal Chem
. 2020 Apr;
2020:6129132.
PMID: 32231701
Protein quantification is often an essential step in any research field that involves proteins. Although the standard Lowry assay and its modifications are most abundantly used in protein quantification, the...
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Senarath U, Senanayake S, Pathirana S, Karunaweera N, Weerasinghe M, Gunawardena N, et al.
Ceylon Med J
. 2020 Mar;
64(3):103-110.
PMID: 32120460
Introduction: Sri Lanka has a predominantly rural population. However, there is a dearth of research on health and socioeconomic issues in this group. Objective: To describe basic socioeconomic characteristics and...
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Karunaweera N, Ginige S, Senanayake S, Silva H, Manamperi N, Samaranayake N, et al.
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2019 Dec;
26(1):1-10.
PMID: 31855147
Leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease, is on the decline in South Asia. However, cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis have risen in Sri Lanka since 2001, and the lack of in-depth research...
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Siriwardana Y, Deepachandi B, Weliange S, Udagedara C, Wickremarathne C, Warnasuriya W, et al.
J Trop Med
. 2019 Aug;
2019:6475939.
PMID: 31428163
Cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by a genetic variant of is being reported from Sri Lanka since year 2001. Patients presented from different geographical locations (600 patients from North or South and...