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| Histopathological diagnosis of myocarditis in a dengue outbreak in Sri Lanka, 2009 KGAD Weerakoon, SAM Kularatne, DH Edussuriya, SKA Kodikara, ... BMC Research Notes 4 (1), 268, 2011 | 87 | 2011 |
| Revisiting Russell's viper (Daboia russelii) bite in Sri Lanka: is abdominal pain an early feature of systemic envenoming? SAM Kularatne, A Silva, K Weerakoon, K Maduwage, C Walathara, ... PloS one 9 (2), e90198, 2014 | 82 | 2014 |
SAM KularatneProfessor of Medicine, University of PeradeniyaVerified email at pdn.ac.lk
