Chaturaka Rodrigo

Is resitance to anti-HCV drugs "real"? After a decade of treatment, a collboration of scientists and clinicians from 17 countries collated their data for the most comprehensive answer to-date for this question. #HCV #EASL #SHARED #JHEPreports bit.ly/3mrFclH

A detailed analysis of how Hepatitis C virus variants emerge and diminish within a single infected patient overtime - a feat possible with tools we developed over the last 5 years #ONT #Oxfordnanopore #NanoQ #HCV doi.org/10.1016/j.meeg…

More severe COVID may also lead to better immunity, at least up to 12 months post-infection - Our latest publication (NB - This is pre-Omicron data) #COVID19 cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Data on post-thrombolysis outcomes for patients in South Asian countries are scanty at best. We recently published some much needed data from Sri Lanka on this. rdcu.be/cB7Pe

How common is plasma leakage in dengue? An all important question for which the answer is not straight forward - we discuss the reasons here in our latest work. #denguefever #Colombodenguestudy rdcu.be/cA8O3

Is it cheaper to exclude a diagnosis of dengue upfront, than treat everyone on clinical suspicion? -Depends on who is testing #denguefever #Colombodenguestudy #PLOSONE: Direct costs of managing in-ward dengue patients in Sri Lanka: A prospective study dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

SHARED: An International Collaboration to Unravel Hepatitis C Resistance mdpi.com/1223190 ##mdpiviruses via @VirusesMDPI A global collaboration for tracking resistant mutations in hepatitis C virus against directly acting antivirals #HCV #antivirals

Check out "Viral Hepatitis: improving lives with medical research - a panel discussion" eventbrite.com.au/e/viral-hepati… @Eventbrite

Check out the free event "Viral Hepatitis: improving lives with medical research - a panel discussion" eventbrite.com.au/e/viral-hepati… @Eventbrite

Developing tools to understand how HCV, a carcinogenic virus tackles the human immune system successfully (on most occassions) #HCV #antibodies #Immunity authors.elsevier.com/c/1dHTJ52ixvDD…

For how long does COVID-19 immunity last after natural infection? At least for 6 months and possibly more, driven by memory B cells (Our latest paper, hot off the press) #COVID19 cell.com/cell-reports-m…

Multiple genomic variants of RNA viruses exist in a single infected person. Scientists assume a representative sequence per host as these variants cannot be sequenced in whole……until now; with @PDawgzGG @martinalexsmith @DrKirston @nasirriaz bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Adikari et al. develop a methodology to sequence near full-length Dengue virus genomes as intact molecules. Thanks for using @vipr_db! @chaturod @thiruni1 @PDawgzGG @UNSW nature.com/articles/s4159…

A pre-pandemic Dengue virus sequencing project we were involved in was recently published. Led by @chaturod @thiruni1 & @nasirriaz with help from the magical pipette of @DrKirston nature.com/articles/s4159…

Severity of fatigue after an acute infection may be influenced by patient genetics -our latest work authors.elsevier.com/c/1cSOW_KDvPMm…

Our new method makes it much easier to generate dengue genomes. There is also a cool new tool to identify within-host variants #Dengue #Colombodenguestudy #ONT nature.com/articles/s4159…

#mdpiviruses Tenth Scientific Biennial Meeting of the Australasian Virology Society—AVS10 2019 @VirusesMDPI

My article is featured on the @ResearchGate #COVID19 community page. Read it here: researchgate.net/publication/34…

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This @chaturod guy s new paper got published! Check it out 🙋🙋🙌🙌 #HCV #virus

A major obstacle for vaccine development in hepatitis C is the variability of the virus genome. We have found that this variability differs based on the type virus and a persons genetic make up #HCV #viruses #shannonentropy #cirrhosis ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30578702