A real-world study of BBIBP-CorV vaccine effectiveness in a Sri Lanka rural province.

Objective: Real-world studies assessing the effectiveness of the BBIBP-CorV vaccine in low and middle-income countries are limited. We evaluated the BBIBP-CorV vaccine's effectiveness in reducing COVID-19 symptomatic disease, hospitalisation, severe disease, and mortality during the third wave of the pandemic in Sri Lanka.

Methods: We conducted a test-negative case-control study in North Central Province from May 2021 to February 2022.

Kounis syndrome following an anaphylactic reaction to antivenom in a patient with Russell's viper (Daboia russelii) bite: A case report.

Kounis syndrome is the occurrence of acute coronary syndrome associated with mast cell and platelet activation in the setting of allergic or anaphylactic insults. Kounis syndrome has been previously reported following snake envenoming rarely, with or without antivenom therapy. We report a case of inferolateral ST elevation myocardial infarction 32 hours from a confirmed Russell's viper bite.

Demographic, exposure, clinical, biochemical and diagnostic data of febrile patients recruited for the largest field study on leptospirosis in Sri Lanka.

This dataset includes data from febrile patients recruited for a large hospital-based study in Sri Lanka from 2016 to 2019. The variables include primary socio-demographic data, exposure data, clinical data, biochemical and investigation data. Some of these data are available as serial data from admission to discharge daily.

Time delays in treatment of snakebite patients in rural Sri Lanka and the need for rapid diagnostic tests.

Delays in treatment seeking and antivenom administration remain problematic for snake envenoming. We aimed to describe the treatment seeking pattern and delays in admission to hospital and administration of antivenom in a cohort of authenticated snakebite patients. Adults (> 16 years), who presented with a confirmed snakebite from August 2013 to October 2014 were recruited from Anuradhapura Hospital.

Neurotoxicity in Russell's viper (Daboia russelii) envenoming in Sri Lanka: a clinical and neurophysiological study.

Context: Russell's viper is more medically important than any other Asian snake, due to number of envenoming's and fatalities. Russell's viper populations in South India and Sri Lanka (Daboia russelii) cause unique neuromuscular paralysis not seen in other Russell's vipers.

Objective: To investigate the time course and severity of neuromuscular dysfunction in definite Russell's viper bites, including antivenom response.

Neuromuscular Effects of Common Krait (Bungarus caeruleus) Envenoming in Sri Lanka.

Objective: We aimed to investigate neurophysiological and clinical effects of common krait envenoming, including the time course and treatment response.

Methodology: Patients with definite common krait (Bungarus caeruleus) bites were recruited from a Sri Lankan hospital. All patients had serial neurological examinations and stimulated concentric needle single-fibre electromyography (sfEMG) of orbicularis oculi in hospital at 6 wk and 6-9 mth post-bite.

The 2013 measles outbreak in Sri Lanka: experience from a rural district and implications for measles elimination goals.

Background: Sri Lanka was the first country in the Southeast Asian region to achieve its measles elimination goal in 2011. In 2012, the measles immunization schedule changed from a measles vaccine at 9 months to a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at 12 months. However in 2013, Sri Lanka reported its worst recent outbreak of measles.

Regional differences of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka: observations from a flood-associated outbreak in 2011.

Leptospirosis is known to be an important cause of weather disaster-related infectious disease epidemics. In 2011, an outbreak of leptospirosis occurred in the relatively dry district of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka where diagnosis was resisted by local practitioners because leptospirosis was not known in the area and the clinical presentation was considered atypical. To identify the causative Leptospira associated with this outbreak, we carried out a cross-sectional study.

First authenticated case of Sri Lankan flying snake (Chrysopelea taprobanica) bite.

Flying snakes (Genus Chrysopelea) are a group of ophisthoglyphous colubrids in South and South East Asia known for gliding in the air. Of the five species of flying snakes, Sri Lankan flying snake, Chrysopelea taprobanica, is endemic to Sri Lanka. Authenticated bites and the venom characteristics of this uncommon snake remain unknown.