Publications by authors named "K Eranda Karunathilake"
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- Dengue, a significant mosquito-borne illness in Sri Lanka, can potentially be controlled using the environmentally friendly Sterile Insect Technique (SIT).
- This study assessed the effectiveness of sterile male mosquitoes released weekly over a month and tracked their dispersal and survival rates in Gampaha.
- Results indicated that sterile males could travel considerable distances, had a notable mating competitiveness, and significantly reduced the population of wild mosquitoes, providing valuable data for future control initiatives in Sri Lanka and similar regions.
The freshwater snail play an important role as the sole intermediate host of several medically- and economically-important trematodes, especially zoonotic schistosomes and echinostomes which can infect and cause diseases in livestock and people. This study aims to explore the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 sequence variation of collected from new geographical areas; 459 specimens of were collected from 43 localities in South and Southeast Asia. The 42 haplotypes (Ie1 - Ie42) we detected were classified into haplogroups I - V.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Coronavirus or COVID-19 is a disease based on an unknown virus. It seems that it started in China and has widely spread in almost all countries in the world. This pandemic situation is one of the widely spread diseases in recent history.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Seaweeds are an important source of bioactive compounds which are applied in various aspects of medicinal investigations. The present study was conducted to investigate cytoxicity ( and ) and wound healing activity of different seaweed species in Sri Lanka.
Methods: Twenty-three seaweed samples, belonging to Phaeophyta (Brown), Chlorophyta (Green) and Rhodophyta (Red) were used for the experiments.