Select Publications
Journal articles
2010, 'Symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescent students; a perspective from Sri Lanka', Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 4, pp. 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1753-2000-4-10
,2010, 'HIV, poverty and women', International Health, 2, pp. 9 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.inhe.2009.12.003
,2010, 'Atypical manifestations of chikungunya infection', Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 104, pp. 89 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.07.031
,2010, 'Looking at Complicating Non-Biological Issues in Women with HIV', JOURNAL OF GLOBAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2, pp. 15 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.59246
,2010, 'A two-year retrospective analysis of renal transplant patients in Sri Lanka', Indian Journal of Transplantation, 4, pp. 15 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2212-0017(11)60042-7
,2009, 'Management of Sepsis-Induced Acute Kidney Injury', Sri Lanka Journal of Critical Care, 1, pp. 3 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sljcc.v1i1.937
,2009, 'Current Status of HIV/AIDS in South Asia', JOURNAL OF GLOBAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 1, pp. 93 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.56249
,2009, 'Acceptance of ligation and resection of tubes for contraception in Sri Lanka', Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 35, pp. 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1783/147118909789587231
,2009, 'Renal replacement therapy in sepsis-induced acute renal failure.', Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation : an official publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia, 20, pp. 553 - 559
,2009, 'Cannabis and schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a review of clinical studies.', Indian J Psychol Med, 31, pp. 62 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.63575
,Conference Papers
2016, 'Bradykinesia, low monthly income and current employment are associated with depression in patients with Parkinson's disease: Results of a study from Sri Lanka', in MOVEMENT DISORDERS, WILEY-BLACKWELL, GERMANY, Berlin, pp. S483 - S483, presented at 20th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, GERMANY, Berlin, 19 June 2016 - 23 June 2016, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000382559802228&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2016, 'Prevalence and associations for depression in patients with Parkinson's disease: A Sri Lankan experience', in MOVEMENT DISORDERS, WILEY-BLACKWELL, PHILIPPINES, Manila, pp. S33 - S35, presented at 5th Asian and Oceanian Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Congress, PHILIPPINES, Manila, 11 March 2016 - 13 March 2016, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000372807900058&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,Conference Presentations
2021, 'Increase in antibody-dependent phagocytosis in a subset of HCV patients with anti-envelope antibodies', presented at 16th National Scientific Workshop of the Australian Center for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research, Bowral, Australia
,2021, 'Rational use of ultrasonography with triaging of patients to detect dengue plasma leakage in resource limited settings: a prospective cohort study', presented at ECCMID 2021, Vienna, Austria
,2021, 'Optimised approach for high throughput hepatitis C virus amplification for transmission cluster identification in Australian prisons', presented at 16th National Scientific Workshop of the Australian Center for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research, Bowral, Australia
,2021, 'Post-viral fatigue in dengue infection', presented at ECCMID 2021, Vienna Austria
,2020, 'Characteristics of Resistance Associated Substitutions (RASs) in “unusual” HCV subtypes: a worldwide network of HCV resistance database', presented at ECCMID 2020, Paris France
,2020, 'HCV resistance patterns in a large international cohort of DAA-naïve and -experienced patients with GT3a infection', presented at ECCMID 2020, Paris, France
,2020, 'Post-viral fatigue in dengue infection', presented at 133rd Annual Conference of the Sri Lanka Medical Association
,2020, 'Real-world drug resistance profile of hepatitis C patients who failed direct-acting antivirals: SHARED', presented at ECCMID 2020, Paris France
,2020, 'Remote delivery of a digitized course; success at time of crisis', presented at Teaching and Learning Forum, UNSW, UNSW Sydney
,2020, 'Resolving within-host, full length, dengue virus variants without haplotype reconstruction using Oxford Nanopore Technology', presented at ECCMID 2020, Paris, France
,2019, 'A single nested PCR method for full length dengue virus genome amplification', presented at 7th European Congress of Virology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
,2019, 'Using networks to study epistatic interactions of HCV', presented at 14th Scientific Workship of the Australian Center for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research, Canungra, Australia
,2019, 'Whole genome long read sequencing of Hepatitis C virus and its applications', presented at 14th National Scientific Workshop of the Australian Center for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research, Canungra, Australia
,2018, 'Challenges in characterizing hepatitis C virus founder variants with deep sequencing', presented at 13th National Scientific Workshop of the Australian Center for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research
,2018, 'Genetic variability of Hepatitis C quasi-species in early infection', presented at Global Hepatitis Summit, Toronto, Canada
,2018, 'Host IFNλ3 genotype and viral genotype are key determinants of within-host HCV genomic variation in early infection', presented at 13th National Scientific Workshop of the Australian Center for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research, Yarra Valley, Australia
,2018, 'Prediction of Dengue critical phase in resource limited settings using clinical features and basic investigations', presented at Annual academic sessions of Ceylon College of Physicians, Colombo, Sri Lanka
,2018, 'Using narratives to teach Pathology', presented at Teaching and Learning Forum, UNSW, UNSW Sydney
,2017, 'Establishment of InC3 viral sequence repository and its applications', presented at 12th National Scientific Workshop of the Australian Center for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research, Barossa Valley, Australia
,2016, 'An outbreak of malaria among Sri Lankan security forces personnel deployed in Central African Republic: a case study and lessons learnt', presented at Annual Research Symposium, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
,2016, 'Bayesian evolutionary analysis of hepatitis C epidemic in Australia and North America in 20th century', presented at Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference, GoldCoast, Australia
,2016, 'Bayesian evolutionary analysis of hepatitis C epidemic in Australia and North America in 20th century', presented at International conference in Systems Biology, Barcelona, Spain
,2016, 'Broadly neutralizing antibodies against hepatitis C envelope; using a network approach to understand co-evolution of critical residues', presented at International conference in Systems Biology, Barcelona, Spain
,2016, 'Examining past and future hepatitis C virus epidemic trends in the era of directly acting antivirals', presented at Australian Society of Microbiology annual scientific meeting, Perth, Australia
,2016, 'Molecular epidemiology of full length hepatitis C virus genomes among injecting drug users with recent infection: The InC3 study', presented at 5th International Symposium on Hepatitis Care in Substance Users, Oslo, Norway
,2016, 'Trends of Hepatitis C virus infections in North America and Australia in 20th century; back projections from molecular epidemiology', presented at 5th International Symposium on Hepatitis Care in Substance Users, Oslo, Norway
,2015, 'A diagnostic model for leptospirosis for use in resource limited settings', presented at 128th Annual Sri Lanka Medical Association Sessions, Colombo, Sri Lanka
,2015, 'A network approach for the identification of co-evolving mutations in Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in the context of immune escape against neutralizing antibody responses', presented at COMBINE Student Symposium, Sydney, Australia
,2015, 'Challenges to malaria surveillance following elimination of indigenous transmission: findings from a hospital based study in rural Sri Lanka', presented at 128th Sri Lanka Medical Association Sessions, Colombo, Sri Lanka
,2015, 'Characterizing neutralizing antibody responses targeting founder virus in early primary HCV infection with varying disease outcome', presented at International Symposium on Hepatitis C virus and related viruses, Strasbourg, France
,2015, 'Clinical and laboratory associations of severity in a Sri Lankan cohort of patients with serologically confirmed leptospirosis – a prospective study', presented at Annual Sri Lanka Medical Association Sessions, Colombo, Sri Lanka
,2015, 'Clinico-epidemiological characteristics, treatment and outcomes of patients with confirmed leptospirosis in a Sri Lankan healthcare setting', presented at 128th Annual Sri Lanka Medical Association Sessions, Colombo, Sri Lanks
,2015, 'Global molecular epidemiology of acute hepatitis infection via phylogenetic analysis of full length genomes across nine international cohorts', presented at 11th National Scientific Workshop of the Australian Center for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research, Hunter Valley, Australia
,2015, 'High default rates for treatment of depression in the periphery', presented at 23rd European Psychiatry Association Congress, Vienna, Austria
,2015, 'Identification of co-evolving mutations of the Hepatitis C virus in the context of immune escape against neutralizing antibody responses using a bioinformatics workflow', presented at 8th Australasian virology society meeting, Hunter Valley, Australia
,2015, 'Lower estimated glomerular filtration rates in patients on long term Lithium. A comparative study and a meta-analysis of literature', presented at 23rd European Psychiatry Association Congress, Vienna, Austria
,2015, 'Natural prevalence of HCV resistance associated variants in treatment naïve patients across six genotypes', presented at 11th National Scientific Workshop of the Australian Center for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research, Hunter Valley, Australia
,2015, 'Peer assisted learning: experience from a medical school in Sri Lanka', presented at 10th Annual conference of the Sri Lanka Association for improving higher education effectiveness, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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