With age, immunologic function changes substantially, resulting in impaired responses to
pathogens or vaccines. As a result, older adults are at increased risk for morbidity and mortality …

… Thilinie Bandaranayake … Thilinie Bandaranayake … Chawla, Hailong Meng, Thilinie
Bandaranayake, Ikuyo Ueda, Heidi J. Zapata, Koonam Park, Tamara P. Blevins, Sui Tsang, Robert B. …

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection that causes significant maternal morbidity,
and even fetal mortality, during pregnancy, yet there are limited therapeutic options. Here, we …

Cryptococcus neoformans is a ubiquitous encapsulated environmental yeast that can cause
severe central nervous system disease, primarily in immune compromised hosts. In patients …

There is a persistent misconception that over the past three decades, US policy towards the
Islamic Republic has been rigid and unchanging. The decade that has gone by since the …

… THILINIE BANDARANAYAKE, MBBS Clinical Fellow and Instructor in Medicine, Section
of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut …

A correlation between Young’s modulus, as determined by using nanoindentation atomic
force microscopy (AFM), and atomic polarizability is observed for members of a series of …

P rototheca wickerhamii is an alga that rarely causes human disease but has been reported
increasingly among immunocompromised individuals. We report a fatal case of P . …

… My wife, Thilinie. She has been very understanding and supportive of what I want to do in
life. I truly appreciate the sacrifices she has made by giving up her life and work in Sri Lanka to …

After 30 years of war in Sri Lanka, the demand for real estate has increased tremendously
across the nation. Similarly, numerous real estate sub-sectors have avidly participated in the …