Dengue and leptospirosis infection during the coronavirus 2019 outbreak in Sri Lanka

dc.contributor.author	Niriella, M.A.
dc.contributor.author	Ediriweera, D.S.
dc.contributor.author	de Silva, A.P.
dc.contributor.author	Premaratna, B.A.H.R.
dc.contributor.author	Jayasinghe, S.
dc.contributor.author	de Silva, H.J.
dc.date.accessioned	2021-05-03T06:07:15Z
dc.date.available	2021-05-03T06:07:15Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.citation	Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.2021; 115(9):944-946	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0035-9203 (Print)
dc.identifier.issn	1878-3503 (Electronic)
dc.identifier.issn	0035-9203 (Linking)
dc.identifier.uri	http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/22179
dc.description	Indexed in MEDLINE	en_US
dc.description.abstract	ABSTRACT: A significant decrease in dengue fever cases and a contrasting increase in leptospirosis cases were reported for the second quarter of 2020 compared with 2019 in Sri Lanka. In the absence of significant environmental and weather-related differences to account for these changes in incidence, we investigated the possibility that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health, social behaviour and the restrictions imposed during the lockdown influenced the fluctuations in dengue and leptospirosis infections. KEYWORDS: COVID-19; dengue fever; leptospirosis; pandemic; tropical infections.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Oxford University Press	en_US
dc.subject	dengue	en_US
dc.title	Dengue and leptospirosis infection during the coronavirus 2019 outbreak in Sri Lanka	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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