Pratheepan, G.J.; Bodinayake, C.K.(Galle Medical Association, 2009-07-29)
Malaria is an important treatable cause of fever.
Cerebral malaria caused by Plasmodium
falciparum causes multisystem involvement
leading to death. Though malaria was a common
illness in Sri Lanka years back, the ...
Reller, Megan E.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Nagahawatte, A.; Devasiri, V.; Arachchi, W.K.; Strouse, John J.; Flom, Judith E.; Dumler, J. Stephen; Woods, Christopher W.(Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, United States, 2011-09-09)
To determine the proportion of fevers caused by leptospirosis, we obtained serum specimens and epidemiologic and clinical data from patients in Galle, Sri Lanka, March-October 2007. Immunoglobulin M ELISA was performed on ...
Introduction: Endocarditis is a rare complication of salmonellosis. The most frequently observed species is Salmonella typhi[1]. Endocarditis caused by Salmonella paratyphi is extremely rare with only few previous cases ...
Reller, Megan E.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Nagahawatte, A.; Devasiri, V.; Arachchi, W.K.; Strouse, John J.; Broadwater, Anne; Ostbye, T.; De Silva, A.; Woods, Christopher W.(Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, United States, 2012-02-02)
Dengue virus (DENV), a globally emerging cause of
undifferentiated fever, has been documented in the heavily
urbanized western coast of Sri Lanka since the 1960s.
New areas of Sri Lanka are now being affected, and ...
Relle, Megan E.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Nagahawatte, A.; Devasiri, V.; Arachchi, W.K.; Strouse, John J.; Flom, Judith E.; Ostbye, T.; Woods, Christopher W.; Dumler, J. Stephen(Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, United States, 2012-05-05)
We studied rickettsioses in southern Sri Lanka. Of 883 febrile patients with paired serum samples, 156 (17.7%) had acute rickettsioses; rickettsioses were unsuspected at presentation. Additionally, 342 (38.7%) had exposure ...
Gayani, G.G.A.; Muhunthan, S.; Perera, A.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Mohideen, M.R.(Ceylon College of Physician, 2014-11-27)
Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis is a rare,chronic lung disease with bilateral intra-alveolar calcium and phosphate deposition throughout the lung parenchyma. This is a case history of a 40- year-old female with a family ...
Arambewela, M.H.; Sumanathilaka, M.R.; Pathirana, K.D.; Bodinayake, C.K.(The Sri Lanka Medical Association, 2013-12-28)
Acute hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HPP), a clinical syndrome characterised by acute systemic weakness and low serum potassium (K+), is a rare but treatable cause of acute limb weakness. Hypokalemia can be caused by K+ ...
Reller, Megan E.; Akoroda, Ufuoma; Nagahawatte, A.; Devasiri, V.; Strouse, John J.; Chua, Robert; Yan'an Hou; Chow, Angelia; Sessions, October M.; Ostbye, T.; Gubler, Duane J.; Woods, Christopher W.; Bodinayake, C.K.(Public Library of Science (PLOS) , 2013-12-02)
Background: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) re-emerged in Sri Lanka in late 2006 after a 40-year hiatus. We sought to
identify and characterize acute chikungunya infection (CHIK) in patients presenting with acute undifferentiated ...
Tillekeratne, L.G.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Nagahawatte, A.; Vidanagama, D.; Arachchi, W.K.; Kurukulasooriya, R.; De Silva, A.D.; Ostbye, T.; Reller, Megan E.; Woods, Christopher W.(The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2015-05-02)
Influenza accounts for a large burden of acute respiratory tract infections in high-income countries; data from lower-income settings are limited due to lack of confirmatory testing. Consecutive outpatients presenting to ...
Tillekeratne, L.G.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Nagahawatte, A.; Vidanagama, D.; Anderson, W.K.; Kurukulasooriya, R.; De Silva, A.D.; Ostbye, T.; Reller, Megan E.; Woods, Christopher W.(The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2015-11)
Acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are a common reason for unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions worldwide. Our objective was to determine if providing access to rapid influenza test results could reduce antibiotic ...
Egodage, U.K.; Dissanayake, N.U.; Dahanayake, M.U.; Bodinayake, C.K.(The Sri Lanka Medical Association, 2016-12-30)
Dengue is an important viral illness which has the
potential to progress into dengue hemorrhagic fever
(DHF) or dengue shock syndrome (DSS). Leucopenia
and throm-bocytopenia are the hallmarks of acute
dengue which ...
Background: Extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-PE) are increasingly reported as pathogens
in urinary tract infections (UTIs). However, in Sri Lanka, the clinical and molecular epidemiology ...
Bodinayake, C.K.; Tillekeratne, L.G.; Nagahawatte, A.; Devasiri, V.; Arachchi, W.K.; Strouse, John J.; Sessions, October M.; Kurukulasooriya, R.; Uehara, Anna; Howe, Shiqin; Xin Mei Ong; Tan, Sharon; Chow, Angelia; Tummalapalli, P.; De Silva, A.D.; Ostbye, T.; Woods, Christopher W.; Gubler, Duane J.; Reller, Megan E.(Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2016-10-06)
Background
Dengue is a frequent cause of acute febrile illness with an expanding global distribution. Since the 1960s, dengue in Sri Lanka has been documented primarily along the heavily urbanized western coast with ...
Introduction
Infective endocarditis (IE) carries significant
mortality and morbidity and Streptococci and
Staphylococci are the common causative organisms
Apart from the HACEK group (Haemophilus,
Actinobacillus, ...
Shapiro, David; Bodinayake, C.K.; Nagahawatte, A.; Devasiri, V.; Kurukulasooriya, R.; Hsiang, Jeremy; Nicholson, B.P.; De Silva, A.D.; Ostbye, T.; Reller, Megan E.; Woods, Christopher W.; Tillekeratne, L.G.(The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2017-07-12)
In tropical and subtropical settings, the epidemiology of viral acute respiratory tract infections varies widely
between countries. We determined the etiology, seasonality, and clinical presentation of viral acute respiratory ...
Background: Acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are a common reason for antibiotic overuse worldwide. We
previously showed that over 80% of outpatients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka with ...
Acquired haemophilia A (AHA) is a rare acquired
bleeding disorder with a worldwide incidence of 2
per million of the population (1). It has a bimodal age
distribution including postpartum period and adults
over 50 years ...
Uehara, Anna; Tissera, H.A.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Amarasinghe, A.; Nagahawatte, A.; Tillekeratne, L.G.; Jie Cui; Reller, Megan E.; Palihawadana, P.; Gunasena, S.; De Silva, A.D.; Wilder-Smith, A.; Gubler, Duane J.; Woods, Christopher W.; Sessions, October M.(The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2017-07-12)
The four serotypes of dengue virus (DENV-1, -2, -3, and -4) have had a rapidly expanding geographic range and are now endemic in over 100 tropical and subtropical countries. Sri Lanka has experienced periodic dengue outbreaks ...
Jayasekara, J.M.S.; Palangasinghe, D.R.; Bodinayake, C.K.(Galle Medical Association, 2018-03-30)
Gitelman syndrome (GS) is an autosomal recessively
inherited salt loosing tubulopathy with a prevalence
of 1-10 per 40,000 people (1, 2). The prevalence
of GS is higher in Asia than other countries (2). GS
is characterized ...
De Silva, C.M.; Fonseka, C.L.; Nanayakkara, S.D.; Singhapura, S.D.A.L.; Palangasinghe, D.R.; Hewawithana, J.S.; Pathirana, K.D.; Bodinayake, C.K.(Galle Medical Association, 2018-03-01)
Scrub typhus is a zoonotic disease where currently
about one million new cases are identified
annually and one billion people may be at risk of
this disease (1-3). The infection is acquired through
agricultural activities ...