Research & Grants

Research Interests

  • Research interest - 1
  • Research interest - 2

Research Grants

  • National Research Council Research Grant 00-30 for the study titled “Surveillance of Gram negative bacilli in an intensive care unit – identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing”
  • Postgraduate Research Grant from the University Grants Commission in 2008 for the study titled “Sero-epidemiology of Infection with Burkholderia pseudomallei and the Clinical Presentation of Meliodosis in Sri Lanka”
  • National Research Council Grant 14-45 for the study titled “Determination of resistance mechanisms and the genes coding for such resistance in clinically significant Enterobacteriaceae isolated from urine at a state tertiary care referral hospital and a private hospital in Sri Lanka”
  • University Grant 2018 - AP/03/02/2018/SG/1 - for the study titled “Determination of the genetic variants of bla genes and outer membrane porin loss in clinically significant beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae isolated from urine and evaluation of the different phenotypic laboratory tests in detecting beta-lactamase production in Enterobacteriaceae”