Scholarly Publications of Academic Members

Scholarly Publications of Academic Members

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  • 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 ...
  • Egodage, U.K.; Dharmarathne, C.; Mohideen, M.S.; Dahanayake, M.U.; Bodinayake, C.K. (Ruhunu Clinical Society, 2015-11-01)
    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 ...
  • Tillekeratne, L.G.; Vidanagama, D.; Tippalagama, R.; Lewkebandara, R.; Joyce, Maria; Nicholson, B.P.; Nagahawatte, A.; Bodinayake, C.K.; De Silva, A.D.; Woods, Christopher W. (Infect Chemother, 2016-09-23)
    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 ...
  • Piyasiri, D.L.B.; Priyarangani, W.K.A.P.; Kariyawasam, I.; Wijeweera, D.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Kodikaraarachchi, R.W.K.; Madurawe, D.R.; Sathananthan, P.P.; Jayasekara, J.V.G.M. (Galle Medical Association, 2017-03-28)
    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 ...
  • Tillekeratne, L.G.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Dabrera, T.; Nagahawatte, A.; Arachchi, W.K.; Sooriyaarachchi, A.; Stewart, Kearsley; Watt, Melissa; Ostbye, T.; Woods, Christopher W. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2017-03-16)
    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 ...
  • Palangasinghe, D.R.; Gamage, V.N.U.; Bodinayake, C.K.; Mohotti, M.G.M. (Galle Medical Association, 2017-03-28)
    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 ...

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