Search Results - "Rajakaruna, Jagath"

Quantifying Genetic and Nongenetic Contributions to Malarial Infection in a Sri Lankan Population by Mackinnon, Margaret J., Gunawardena, D. M., Rajakaruna, Jagath, Weerasingha, Sudath, Mendis, Kamini N., Carter, Richard

“…Explaining the causes of variation in the severity of malarial disease remains a major challenge in the treatment and control of malaria. Many factors are…”
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Infectivity of Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum to Anopheles tessellatus; relationship between oocyst and sporozoite development by Gamage-Mendis, A C, Rajakaruna, J, Weerasinghe, S, Mendis, C, Carter, R, Mendis, K N

“…The assessment of malarial infectivity, for example in the evaluation of transmission blocking immunity, is generally based on counting oocysts in mosquitoes…”
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Transmission blocking immunity to human Plasmodium vivax malaria in an endemic population in Kataragama, Sri Lanka by Gamage-Mendis, A C, Rajakaruna, J, Carter, R, Mendis, K N

“…Serum effects on gametocyte infectivity, that is, transmission blocking/enhancing immunity, were measured in the sera of 196 acute Plasmodium vivax patients…”
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Strain specific protective immunity induced by pre-erythrocytic infection of toque monkeys with Plasmodium cynomolg by Wijayalath, Wathsala, Cheesman, Sandie, Rajakaruna, Jagath, Weerasinghe, Sudath, Kapilananda, Gamini, Gamage, Kamal, Perera, Kamal, Handunnetti, Shiroma, Carter, Richard, Pathirana, Sisira

“…Acknowledgements Financial support by NSF, Sri Lanka (research grant -RG/2005/HS/14 and scholarship - NSF/SCH/2004/08) and NRC, Sri Lanka 05-66 is…”
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Method to estimate relative transmission efficiencies of Anopheles species (Diptera: Culicidae) in human malaria transmission by Mendis, C, Herath, P R, Rajakaruna, J, Weerasinghe, S, Gamage-Mendis, A C, Mendis, K N, De Zoysa, A P

“…A mathematical expression was derived to estimate the relative malaria transmission efficiency of an anopheline species with respect to a standard…”
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Third meeting on Novel Adjuvants Currently in or Close to Clinical Testing World Health Organization--Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, Fondation Mérieux, Annecy, France, 7-9 January 2002 by Engers, Howard, Kieny, Marie Paule, Malhotra, Pawan, Pink, J Richard

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Infectious reservoir of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum malaria in an endemic region of Sri Lanka by Gamage-Mendis, A C, Rajakaruna, J, Carter, R, Mendis, K N

“…The infectious reservoir of Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum in a malaria endemic region in Sri Lanka was defined in a population of 3,625 by directly…”
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