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ReviewPathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Placing Leishmaniasis in the Limelight through the Communicable Disease Surveillance System: An Experience from Sri Lanka.

Sonali Dinushika Gunasekara, Hasara Nuwangi, Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe, Kosala Weerakoon, Helen P Price, Lisa Dikomitis, Suneth Buddhika Agampodi

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Review in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sonali Dinushika GunasekaraDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura 50008, Sri Lanka.ORCID 0000-0002-0925-888X
Hasara NuwangiDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura 50008, Sri Lanka.ORCID 0000-0001-6368-3695
Nuwan Darshana WickramasingheDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura 50008, Sri Lanka.ORCID 0000-0001-6025-6022
Kosala WeerakoonDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura 50008, Sri Lanka.
Helen P PriceSchool of Life Sciences, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme ST5 5BG, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1537-4390
Lisa DikomitisKent and Medway Medical School, University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury CT2 7FS, UK.
Suneth Buddhika AgampodiDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura 50008, Sri Lanka.

Funding

National Institute for Health Research NIHR200135
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Having an effective surveillance system is imperative to take timely and appropriate actions for disease control and prevention. In Sri Lanka, leishmaniasis was declared as a notifiable disease in 2008. This paper presents a comprehensive compilation of the up-to-date documents on the communicable disease and leishmaniasis surveillance in Sri Lanka in order to describe the importance of the existing leishmaniasis surveillance system and to identify gaps that need to be addressed. The documents perused included circulars, reports, manuals, guidelines, ordinances, presentations, and published articles. The disease trends reported were linked to important landmarks in leishmaniasis surveillance. The findings suggest that there is a well-established surveillance system in Sri Lanka having a massive impact on increased case detection, resulting in im-proved attention on leishmaniasis. However, the system is not without its short comings and there is room for further improvements.

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disease surveillanceleishmaniasisSri Lanka

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PMID35745534
PMCPMC9227132

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