Nadira Dharshani Karunaweera

First Serological Study Revealing High Humoral Response and Evidence for Antigenic Heterogeneity in Leishmania donovani Induced CL in Sri Lanka.

Deepachandi B, Weerasinghe S, Ranasinghe S, Andrahennadi TP, Wickramanayake MN, Siri S, Karunaweera N, Chandrasekharan V, Chatterjee M, Soysa P, Siriwardana Y.

Biomed Res Int. 2020. 2020:5271657. PMID: 33145352

Use of a Plasmodium vivax genetic barcode for genomic surveillance and parasite tracking in Sri Lanka.

Dewasurendra RL, Baniecki ML, Schaffner S, Siriwardena Y, Moon J, Doshi R, Gunawardena S, Daniels RF, Neafsey D, Volkman S, Chandrasekharan NV, Wirth DF, Karunaweera ND.

Malar J. 2020 Sep 21. 19(1):342. PMID: 32958025

Insecticide susceptibility of the sand fly leishmaniasis vector Phlebotomus argentipes in Sri Lanka.

Pathirage DRK, Karunaratne SHPP, Senanayake SC, Karunaweera ND.

Parasit Vectors. 2020 May 13. 13(1):246. PMID: 32404115

Quantification of Soluble or Insoluble Fractions of Leishmania Parasite Proteins in Microvolume Applications: A Simplification to Standard Lowry Assay.

Deepachandi B, Weerasinghe S, Andrahennadi TP, Karunaweera ND, Wickramarachchi N, Soysa P, Siriwardana Y.

Int J Anal Chem. 2020. 2020:6129132. PMID: 32231701

Spatial Epidemiologic Trends and Hotspots of Leishmaniasis, Sri Lanka, 2001-2018.

Karunaweera ND, Ginige S, Senanayake S, Silva H, Manamperi N, Samaranayake N, Siriwardana Y, Gamage D, Senerath U, Zhou G.

Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 01. 26(1):1-10. PMID: 31855147

Health in rural Sri Lanka: A cross-sectional survey of three rural districts

Senarath U, Senanayake S, Pathirana S, Karunaweera N, Weerasinghe MC, Gunawardena NS, Munugoda IP, Jayasinghe S, Amarathunga P, Corea E, De Silva V, Fernando D, Fernando R, Gnanathasan A, Gunatilake M, Gunawardena S, Katulanda P, Rajapakse S, Samaranayake N, Siriwardana Y.

Ceylon Med J. 2019 Sep 30. 64(3):103-110. PMID: 32120460

First Evidence for Two Independent and Different Leishmaniasis Transmission Foci in Sri Lanka: Recent Introduction or Long-Term Existence?

Siriwardana Y, Deepachandi B, Weliange SS, Udagedara C, Wickremarathne C, Warnasuriya W, Ranawaka RR, Kahawita I, Chandrawansa PH, Karunaweera ND.

J Trop Med. 2019. 2019:6475939. PMID: 31428163

A highly sensitive modified nested PCR to enhance case detection in leishmaniasis.

Deepachandi B, Weerasinghe S, Soysa P, Karunaweera N, Siriwardana Y.

BMC Infect Dis. 2019 Jul 15. 19(1):623. PMID: 31307404

A multicentric evaluation of dipstick test for serodiagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Ethiopia and Spain.

Ejazi SA, Ghosh S, Saha S, Choudhury ST, Bhattacharyya A, Chatterjee M, Pandey K, Das VNR, Das P, Rahaman M, Goswami RP, Rai K, Khanal B, Bhattarai NR, Deepachandi B, Siriwardana YD, Karunaweera ND, deBrito MEF, Gomes YM, Nakazawa M, Costa CHN, Adem E, Yeshanew A, Melkamu R, Fikre H, Hurissa Z, Diro E, Carrillo E, Moreno J, Ali N.

Sci Rep. 2019 07 09. 9(1):9932. PMID: 31289323

Leishmania donovani Induced Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: An Insight into Atypical Clinical Variants in Sri Lanka.

Siriwardana Y, Deepachandi B, Gunasekara C, Warnasooriya W, Karunaweera ND.

J Trop Med. 2019. 2019:4538597. PMID: 31263501