Mahesh PKB, Gunathunga W, Arnold SM, Jayasinghe C, Makarim M, Malaka J and Pathirana S, Makarim MF, Manawadu PM, Senanayake SJ.  2018. Effectiveness of targeting fathers for promotion of breast feeding of infants: A systematic review and a meta-analysis. BMC Public Health. 80.1140. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6037-x.

K. Perera; N. P. Herath; S. L. Pathirana; M. Phone-Kyaw; H. K. Alles; K. N. Mendis; S. Premawansa; S. M. Handunnetti. Association of high plasma TNF-alpha levels and TNF-alpha/IL-10 ratios with TNF2 allele in severe P. falciparum malaria patients in Sri Lanka. Pathogens and Global Health, 2013, 107(1); 21-29(9). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/2047773212Y.0000000069

Wathsala Wijayalath, Sandra Cheesman, Kazuyuki Tanabe, Shiroma Handunnetti, Richard Carter, Sisira Pathiarana. Strain-specific protective effect of the immunity induced by live malarial sporozoites under chloroquine cover. PLoS ONE.  2012, 7(9) e45861:1-7.  DOI: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045861

Wathsala Wijayalath, Sandie Cheesman, Jagath Rajakaruna, Ssudath Weerasinghe, Gamini Kapilananda, Kamal Gamage, Kamal Perera,  Shiroma Handunnetti, Richard Carter and Sisira Pathirana. Strain specific protective immunity induced by pre-erythrocytic infection of toque monkeys with Plasmodium cynomolgi.  Malaria Journal 2010, 9 (Suppl 2):P58 –S2.  doi:10.1186/1475-2875-9-S2-P58

Hiromi Sawai, Hiroto Otani, Nobuko Arisue, Nirianne Palacpac, Sisira Pathirana, Shiroma Handunnetti, Leonardo de Oliveira Martins, Satoru Kawai, Hirohisa Kishino, Toshihiro Horii, and Kazuyuki Tanabe. Lineage-specific Positive Selection at the Merozoite Surface Protein 1 (msp1) Locus of Plasmodium vivax and related Simian Malaria Parasites. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:52.  doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-52

S. L. Pathirana, K. Ekenayake, R. J. Howard, K. N. Mendis and S. M. Handunnetti. Cytoadherence and its association with clinical disease in Plasmodium falciparum infections in Sri Lanka. J. Natn. Sci. Foundation Sri Lanka 2010:38(4);233-240. URL – file:///C:/Users/Hello/Downloads/2650-9200-1-PB.pdf

Wijayalath WAWK, Cheesman S, Rajakaruna J, Handunnetti SM, Carter R, Pathirana P P S L. Evidence for strain-specific protective immunity against blood-stage parasites of Plasmodium cynomolgi in toque monkey.  Parasite Immunology. 2008:30;630-636. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2008.01065.x

Tanabe K, Escalante A, Sakihama N, Honda M, Arisue N, Horii T, Culloton R, Hayakawa T, Hashimoto T, Longacre S, Pathirana S, Handunnetti S, Kishino H.  Recent independent evolution of msp1 polymorphism in Plasmodium vivax and related simian malaria parasites.  Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 2007:156; 74-79.    doi:10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.07.002

Pathirana S L, Alles H K, Perera M K, Bandara S, Phone-Kyaw M, Mendis K N and Handunnetti S M.  ABO blood group types and protection against severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria.  Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 2005:99 (2);119-124(6).  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/136485905X19946

Grech K, Martinelli A, Pathirana S, Walliker D, Hunt P & Carter R. Numerous, robust genetic markers for Plasmodium chabaudi by the method of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism.  Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 2002:123;95-104.  doi:10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00142-1

Handunnetti S M, Gunawardena D M, Pathirana P P S L, Ekenayake K, Weerasinghe S and Mendis K N. Features of recrudescent chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum infections confer a survival advantage on parasites, and have implications for disease control. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene1996:90;563-567.  doi: 10.1016/S0035-9203(96)90325-9

Handunnetti S M, Jayasinghe S, Pathirana P P S L, Fernando R, Sheriff M H R,  and Mendis K N. Chloroquine and sulphadoxine pyrimethamine resistant Plasmodium falciparum  infection in Sri Lanka. Ceylon Medical Journal 1994:39;45 46. PMID:8194148