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21 sie 2023 · Sri Lanka has successfully met the challenge of controlling both lymphatic filariasis (LF) and soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) as public health problems. The primary public health strategy for combatting both conditions has been preventive chemotherapy.
26 wrz 2024 · Professor Nadira Karunaweera is Head of Department of Parasitology at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and has been part of MalariaGEN from the beginning. We recently caught up with Nadira about undertaking malaria research in an elimination setting, the Sri Lankan paradox and early memories of MalariaGEN.
Nadira is the Chair and Senior Professor of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, an honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA and an adjunct Professor at Jamia Hamdard University, India.
We are happy to share with you our latest research article titled ‘Autochthonous Leishmaniasis Caused by Leishmania tropica, Identified by Using Whole Genome Sequencing, Sri Lanka’, published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) journal, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/9/23 ...
At present, PDRU focuses on research and training in a number of parasitic diseases that are of national and global significance. Leishmaniasis, which is a recently established growing health issue in the island, filariasis, helminthiases, entomology and zoonotic infections are to name a few.
Prof. Siriwardana is a past Commonwealth doctoral scholar (in UK) and holds the first Sri Lankan PhD on leishmaniasis, a recently reported health issue in Sri Lanka.
1 kwi 2022 · The present study aimed to document GI parasites of six wild-dwelling large mammal taxa in Sri Lanka: Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), civet (Paradoxurus sp.), Leopard (Panthera pardus), Grey langur (Semnopithecus priam) and buffalo (Bubalus sp). Fresh faecal samples (n = 56) collected from the Wasgomuwa National ...
