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Amoebic liver abscess in northern Sri Lanka: first report of immunological and molecular confirmation of aetiology

Kannathasan, S.; Murugananthan, A.; Kumanan, T.; Iddawala, D.; de Silva, N.R.; Rajeshkannan, N.; Haque, R. (Biomed Central, 2017)

BACKGROUND: Since 1985, amoebic liver abscess (ALA) has been a public health problem in northern Sri Lanka. Clinicians arrive at a diagnosis based on clinical and ultrasonographic findings, which cannot differentiate ...
Cutaneous Larva Migrans among Devotees of the Nallur Temple in Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Kannathasan, S.; Murugananthan, A.; Rajeshkannan, N.; de Silva, N.R. (Public Library of Science, 2012)

BACKGROUND: Many cases of Cutaneous Larva Migrans (CLM) have been observed among devotees, during and immediately after the annual festival at the Nallur Hindu temple in Jaffna. OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the risk factors ...
Epidemiology and factors associated with amoebic liver abscess in Northern Sri Lanka

Kannathasan, S.; Murugananthan, A.; Kumanan, T.; de Silva, N.R.; Rajeshkannan, N.; Haque, R.; Iddawela, D. (BioMed Central, 2018)

BACKGROUND: Clinically diagnosed amoebic liver abscess (ALA) caused by Entamoeba histolytica has been an important public health problem in Jaffna district, northern Sri Lanka for last three decades. In order to draw up a ...
Reassessment of the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Sri Lanka to enable a more focused control programme: a cross-sectional national school survey with spatial modelling

Ediriweera, D.S.; Gunawardena, S.; Gunawardena, N.K.; Iddawela, D.; Kannathasan, S.; Murugananthan, A.; Yahathugoda, C.; Pathmeswaran, A.; Diggle, P. J.; de Silva, N. (Elsevier, 2019)

BACKGROUND:In Sri Lanka, deworming programmes for soil-transmitted helminth infections became an integral part of school health in the 1960s, whereas routine antenatal deworming with mebendazole started in the 1980s. A ...
A Simple intervention to prevent cutaneous larva migrans among devotees of the Nallur Temple in Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Kannathasan, S.; Murugananthan, A.; Rajeshkannan, N.; de Silva, N.R. (Public Library of Science, 2013)

BACKGROUND: A cross sectional study conducted during the annual festival at Nallur temple in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2010, showed that the prevalence of cutaneous larva migrants (CLM) among the devotees who performed the ...

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