Sigera, Ponsuge Chathurani
Amarasekara, Ranmalee
Rodrigo, Chaturaka
Rajapakse, Senaka
Weeratunga, Praveen
De Silva, Nipun Lakshita
Huang, Chun Hong
Sahoo, Malaya K.
Pinsky, Benjamin A.
Pillai, Dylan R.
Tissera, Hasitha A.
Jayasinghe, Saroj
Handunnetti, Shiroma
Fernando, Sumadhya D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Colombo (AP /3/2/2017/CG /25)
University of Calgary,Canada (-)
Article History
Received: 19 March 2019
Accepted: 22 July 2019
First Online: 1 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval for the cohort study was obtained from the Ethics Review Committee, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo (EC-17-080) and NHSL (ETH/COM/2017/12). The LAMP analysis was approved by the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board at the University of Calgary (REB17–2085). Written informed consent was obtained from the participants prior to the recruitment for the study. The youngest participant of this study was 14 years. There were 5 children whose age below 16 years. In case of children, written consent of parents or guardian were collected by the authors at the wards after explaining the study aims and methodology.
: Not applicable.
: DRP is on the BMC Editorial Board. Others have no competing interests to declare.