Nadira Karunaweera

Treatment of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Insights into Species-Specific Responses: A Narrative Review.

Madusanka RK, Silva H, Karunaweera ND.

Infect Dis Ther. 2022 Apr. 11(2):695-711. PMID: 35192172

Image Processing for mHealth-Based Approach to Detect the Local Tissue Inflammation in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: A Proof of Concept Study.

Silva H, Chellappan K, Karunaweera N.

Comput Math Methods Med. 2021. 2021:4208254. PMID: 34873414

Treatment failure to sodium stibogluconate in cutaneous leishmaniasis: A challenge to infection control and disease elimination.

Silva H, Liyanage A, Deerasinghe T, Chandrasekara V, Chellappan K, Karunaweera ND.

PLoS One. 2021. 16(10):e0259009. PMID: 34679130

Genetic diversity and population structure of Phlebotomus argentipes: Vector of Leishmania donovani in Sri Lanka.

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

PLoS One. 2021. 16(9):e0256819. PMID: 34529694

Spatiotemporal distribution of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka and future case burden estimates.

Karunaweera ND, Senanayake S, Ginige S, Silva H, Manamperi N, Samaranayake N, Dewasurendra R, Karunanayake P, Gamage D, de Silva N, Senarath U, Zhou G.

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 04. 15(4):e0009346. PMID: 33891608

Author Correction: 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. 2021 Feb 11. 11(1):3967. PMID: 33574485

First Evidence from Sri Lanka for Subphenotypic Diversity within L. donovani-Induced Classical Cutaneous Leishmaniasis.

Siriwardana Y, Deepachandi B, Weerasinghe S, Karunaweera N, Udagedara C, Warnasuriya W, Ranawaka RR, Kahawita I.

Biomed Res Int. 2021. 2021:3537968. PMID: 33575327

Therapeutic Response to Thermotherapy in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Treatment Failures for Sodium Stibogluconate: A Randomized Controlled Proof of Principle Clinical Trial.

Silva H, Liyanage A, Deerasinghe T, Sumanasena B, Munidasa D, de Silva H, Weerasingha S, Fernandopulle R, Karunaweera N.

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 01 25. 104(3):945-950. PMID: 33534750

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