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| 1 | Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5 years in 2019: a systematic analysis | Lancet, The | 2022 | 445 |
| 2 | Phylogenetic Analysis of Rhinosporidium seeberi ’s 18S Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA Groups This Pathogen among Members of the Protoctistan Mesomycetozoa Clade | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1999 | 204 |
| 3 | Evolution of dengue in Sri Lanka—changes in the virus, vector, and climate | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2014 | 124 |
| 4 | RECENT ADVANCES IN RHINOSPORIDIOSIS AND RHINOSPORIDIUM SEEBERI | Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology | 2002 | 121 |
| 5 | Japanese encephalitis in Sri Lanka—the study of an epidemic: vector incrimination, porcine infection and human disease | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1992 | 83 |
| 6 | Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Both Block and Enhance Transmission of Human Plasmodium Vivax Malaria | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1988 | 79 |
| 7 | Recent advances in rhinosporidiosis and Rhinosporidium seeberi | Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology | 2002 | 71 |
| 8 | Studies on medicinal plants of Sri Lanka: Occurrence of pyrrolizidine alkaloids and hepatotoxic properties in some traditional medicinal herbs | Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 1981 | 63 |
| 9 | Role of verocytotoxigenicEscherichia coliin cattle and buffalo calf diarrhoea | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 1985 | 63 |
| 10 | Japanese encephalitis in Sri Lanka: comparison of vector and virus ecology in different agro-climatic areas | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1993 | 61 |
| 11 | Antibacterial activity of xanthones fromGarcinia mangostana(L.) and their structure–activity relationship studies | Natural Product Research | 2013 | 54 |
| 12 | The potential emergence of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2009 | 52 |
| 13 | Antimicrobial activity of xanthones from Calophyllum species, against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) | Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 1999 | 50 |
| 14 | Rhinosporidiosis: what is the cause? | Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases | 2005 | 50 |
| 15 | Effect of Climatic Factors and Population Density on the Distribution of Dengue in Sri Lanka: A GIS Based Evaluation for Prediction of Outbreaks | PLoS ONE | 2017 | 50 |
| 16 | Survey of mycotic and bacterial keratitis in Sri Lanka | Mycopathologia | 1994 | 49 |
| 17 | Differential phospholipase gene expression byCandida albicansin artificial media and cultured human oral epithelium | Apmis | 2006 | 48 |
| 18 | Seroepidemiology of dengue and other arboviruses in a natural population of toque macaques ( Macaca sinica ) at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka | Journal of Medical Primatology | 1993 | 48 |
| 19 | Immune response to hepatitis B vaccine in a group of health care workers in Sri Lanka | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2013 | 44 |
| 20 | Serological evidence of hantavirus infection in Girandurukotte, an area endemic for chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2017 | 42 |
| 21 | A longitudinal study of Vero cytotoxin producing Escherichia coli in cattle calves in Sri Lanka | Epidemiology and Infection | 1993 | 38 |
| 22 | Terminalia bellirica fruit extracts: in-vitro antibacterial activity against selected multidrug-resistant bacteria, radical scavenging activity and cytotoxicity study on BHK-21 cells | BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 2018 | 38 |
| 23 | Chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology in Sri Lanka: Are leptospirosis and Hantaviral infection likely causes? | Medical Hypotheses | 2016 | 37 |
| 24 | Serotypes of verocytotoxigenicEscherichia coliisolated from cattle and buffalo calf diarrhoea | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 1986 | 36 |
| 25 | Molecular Characterization of Circulating Microbiome Signatures in Rheumatoid Arthritis | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology | 2019 | 36 |
| 26 | Early diagnosis of typhoid fever by the detection of salivary IgA | Journal of Clinical Pathology | 2003 | 28 |
| 27 | Seroepidemiology of dengue and other arboviruses in a natural population of toque macaques (Macaca sinica) at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka | Journal of Medical Primatology | 1993 | 28 |
| 28 | A review on epidemiology and impact of human metapneumovirus infections in children using TIAB search strategy on PubMed and PubMed Central articles | Reviews in Medical Virology | 2020 | 26 |
| 29 | Viruses Isolated from Mosquitoes Collected in Sri Lanka | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1994 | 25 |
| 30 | Angular cheilitis in a group of Sri Lankan adults: a clinical and microbiologic study | Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine | 1991 | 22 |
| 31 | Outcomes of a school-based intervention on rabies prevention among school children in rural Sri Lanka | International Health | 2015 | 21 |
| 32 | 12 Novel clonal groups of Leptospira infecting humans in multiple contrasting epidemiological contexts in Sri Lanka | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2021 | 21 |
| 33 | Nairobi sheep disease virus isolated fromHaemaphysalis intermediaticks collected in Sri Lanka | Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology | 1996 | 20 |
| 34 | Seroepidemiololgy of rickettsioses in Sri Lanka: a patient based study | BMC Infectious Diseases | 2011 | 20 |
| 35 | Lymphadenitis, trans-epidermal elimination and unusual histopathology in human rhinosporidiosis | Mycopathologia | 2002 | 19 |
| 36 | Cryptosporidium, an important enteric pathogen in goats – A review | Small Ruminant Research | 2012 | 19 |
| 37 | Determinants of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka: Study Protocol | BMC Infectious Diseases | 2010 | 18 |
| 38 | Dengue virus co-infections with multiple serotypes do not result in a different clinical outcome compared to mono-infections | Epidemiology and Infection | 2020 | 18 |
| 39 | Weather correlates ofCampylobacterprevalence in broilers at slaughter under tropical conditions in Sri Lanka | Epidemiology and Infection | 2018 | 17 |
| 40 | Blood group AB is associated with severe forms of dengue virus infection | VirusDisease | 2018 | 17 |
| 41 | Purification of the endospores and sporangia of Rhinosporidium seeberi on Percoll columns | Mycopathologia | 1999 | 16 |
| 42 | Deployable Laboratory Response to Emergence of Melioidosis in Central Sri Lanka | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2008 | 16 |
| 43 | The effects of biocides (antiseptics and disinfectants) on the endospores ofRhinosporidium seeberi | Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology | 2006 | 16 |
| 44 | Patterns of rhinosporidiosis in Sri Lanka: comparison with international data | Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health | 2010 | 16 |
| 45 | Diagnosis of dengue in Sri Lanka: improvements to the existing state of the art in the island | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2014 | 15 |
| 46 | Coronaviruses in guano from Pteropus medius bats in Peradeniya, Sri Lanka | Transboundary and Emerging Diseases | 2018 | 15 |
| 47 | Maternal vaginal colonization with selected potential pathogens of neonatal sepsis in the era of antimicrobial resistance, a single center experience from Sri Lanka | BMC Infectious Diseases | 2018 | 15 |
| 48 | Synergistic activity between Triphala and selected antibiotics against drug resistant clinical isolates | BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 2019 | 15 |
| 49 | Exposure to Hantavirus is a Risk Factor Associated with Kidney Diseases in Sri Lanka: A Cross Sectional Study | Viruses | 2019 | 15 |
| 50 | Understanding leptospirosis eco-epidemiology by environmental DNA metabarcoding of irrigation water from two agro-ecological regions of Sri Lanka | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2020 | 15 |
