Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran

Biographic Data

ID9069102
NAMEVijaykrishna Dhanasekaran
GIVEN NAMESVijaykrishna
FAMILY NAMEDhanasekaran
SIGNATUREDHANASEKARAN V
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR0
WORKS AS EDITOR5
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • High Sars-CoV-2 seroincidence but low excess Covid mortality in Sierra Leone in 2020–2022

    Open AccessAhmed Osman, Ashley Aimone et al.EDITORARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    While SARS-CoV-2 infection appears to have spread widely throughout Africa, documentation of associated mortality is limited. We implemented a representative serosurvey in one city of Sierra Leone in Western Africa, paired with nationally representative mortality and selected death registration data. Cumulative seroincidence using high quality SARS-CoV-2 serological assays was 69% by July 2021, rising to 84% by April 2022, mostly preceding SARS-C…

  • Current sampling and sequencing biases of Lassa mammarenavirus limit inference from phylogeography and molecular epidemiology in Lassa fever endemic regions

    Open AccessLiã Bárbara Arruda, Hayley Beth Free et al.EDITORARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Lassa fever (LF) is a potentially lethal viral haemorrhagic infection of humans caused by Lassa mammarenavirus (LASV). It is an important endemic zoonotic disease in West Africa with growing evidence for increasing frequency and sizes of outbreaks. Phylogeographic and molecular epidemiology methods have projected expansion of the Lassa fever endemic zone in the context of future global change. The Natal multimammate mouse ( Mastomys natalensis ) …

  • Tracking Sars-CoV-2 variants through pandemic waves using RT-PCR testing in low-resource settings

    Open AccessAsghar Nasir, Uzma Bashir Aamir et al.EDITORARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    COVID-19 resulted in extensive morbidity and mortality worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 evolved rapidly, with increasing transmission due to Variants of Concern (VOC). Identifying VOC became important but genome submissions from low-middle income countries (LMIC) remained low leading to gaps in genomic epidemiology. We demonstrate the use of a specific mutation RT-PCR based approach to identify VOC in SARS-CoV-2 positive samples through the pandemic in Paki…

  • Comparative impact assessment of Covid-19 policy interventions in five South Asian countries using reported and estimated unreported death counts during 2020-2021

    Open AccessRitoban Kundu, Jyotishka Datta et al.EDITORARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    There has been raging discussion and debate around the quality of COVID death data in South Asia. According to WHO, of the 5.5 million reported COVID-19 deaths from 2020-2021, 0.57 million (10%) were contributed by five low and middle income countries (LMIC) countries in the Global South: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. However, a number of excess death estimates show that the actual death toll from COVID-19 is significantly hig…

  • The emergence of a suburban penalty during the 1918/19 influenza pandemic in Malta

    Open AccessLianne Tripp, Lawrence A Sawchuk et al.EDITORARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The Malta 1918/19 influenza experience adds to our understanding of the pandemic by illustrating the importance of suburban populations, their vulnerabilities, and elevated mortality rates. Studies on the socio-geographical variation in the 1918/19 influenza mortality has largely overlooked the suburban experience, and thus the often-hidden heterogeneity of the disease experience is missing. A comparison of mortality rates across the three settle…