{"id":21,"date":"2019-04-09T03:12:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T08:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/sunil-premawansa\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2019-04-09T03:18:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T08:48:03","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/sunil-premawansa\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1535953458083{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fac-title text-left\">Research Interests<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<ul class=\"ul-boxed list-unstyled\">\n<li>Immunological and molecular biological research on Malaria, Dengue and leptospirosis with respect to Immunopathogenesis and immunogenetics, diagnosis of malaria, dengue and leptospirosis, infectious pathogens in Bats and Chromium toxicity in animals, Immuno-chemical characterization of inset venom and their impact on human health (anaphylaxis), Immuno-chemical characterization of allergenic pollen and their association with respiratory illnesses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fac-title text-left\">Ongoing projects<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<ul class=\"ul-boxed list-unstyled\">\n<li>Reactive oxygen and nitrogen metabolites and use of them as biomarkers for detecting dengue severity and \u00a0genetic risk factors for dengue severity<\/li>\n<li>Reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates and their relationship with leptospirosis severity<\/li>\n<li>Immune effector cell activation in leptospirosis<\/li>\n<li>Investigating most effective diagnosis method for early identification\u00a0 of leptospirosis<\/li>\n<li>Investigating chromium toxicity levels in selected faunal species and their impact on tissue damage and immunological\u00a0 changes in tested animals<\/li>\n<li>Identification of viral and bacterial pathogens transmitted from bats to humans<\/li>\n<li>Identification of etiology of unidentified viral encephalitis patients<\/li>\n<li>Investigating pox viral antibodies in mammal species in Sri Lanka<\/li>\n<li>Immuno chemical characterization of venom from <em>Apis dorsta<\/em> and <em>Vespa affinis<\/em> in Sr Lanka and their impact on anaphylaxis status in human<\/li>\n<li>Immunochemical characterization of allergenic pollen varieties in Sri Lanka and their relationship with respiratory illnesses (e.g. allergic rhinitis) in Sri Lankan patients<\/li>\n<li>Studying immunological mechanisms for endothelial dysfunction in severe dengue patients<\/li>\n<li>Functionalilty of human neutophils on pathogenic and saphrophytic leptospira<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1535953458083{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text] Research Interests [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Immunological and molecular biological research on Malaria, Dengue and leptospirosis with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/sunil-premawansa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/sunil-premawansa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/sunil-premawansa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/sunil-premawansa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/sunil-premawansa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/sunil-premawansa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/sunil-premawansa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/sunil-premawansa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}