Search Results - "Chan, Chris Chung Sing"
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Improved detection of Zika virus RNA in human and animal specimens by a novel, highly sensitive and specific real‐time RT‐PCR assay targeting the 5′‐untranslated region of Zika virus
Published in Tropical medicine & international health (01-05-2017)“…Objective and Method We developed and evaluated five novel real‐time RT‐PCR assays targeting conserved regions in the 5′‐untranslated region (5′‐UTR), envelope…”
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Simulation of the Clinical and Pathological Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a Golden Syrian Hamster Model: Implications for Disease Pathogenesis and Transmissibility
Published in Clinical infectious diseases (03-12-2020)“…Abstract Background A physiological small-animal model that resembles COVID-19 with low mortality is lacking. Methods Molecular docking on the binding between…”
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Surgical Mask Partition Reduces the Risk of Noncontact Transmission in a Golden Syrian Hamster Model for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Published in Clinical infectious diseases (19-11-2020)“…Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is believed to be mostly…”
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Clofazimine broadly inhibits coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2
Published in Nature (London) (20-05-2021)“…The COVID-19 pandemic is the third outbreak this century of a zoonotic disease caused by a coronavirus, following the emergence of severe acute respiratory…”
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Pathogenicity, transmissibility, and fitness of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in Syrian hamsters
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (22-07-2022)“…The in vivo pathogenicity, transmissibility, and fitness of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant are…”
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infects and Damages the Mature and Immature Olfactory Sensory Neurons of Hamsters
Published in Clinical infectious diseases (15-07-2021)“…Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is primarily an acute respiratory tract infection. Distinctively, a substantial proportion of COVID-19…”
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Coinfection by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 and Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 Virus Enhances the Severity of Pneumonia in Golden Syrian Hamsters
Published in Clinical infectious diseases (15-06-2021)“…Abstract Background Clinical outcomes of the interaction between the co-circulating pandemic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and…”
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Cross-linking peptide and repurposed drugs inhibit both entry pathways of SARS-CoV-2
Published in Nature communications (09-03-2021)“…Up to date, effective antivirals have not been widely available for treating COVID-19. In this study, we identify a dual-functional cross-linking peptide 8P9R…”
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SARS-CoV-2 infection induces inflammatory bone loss in golden Syrian hamsters
Published in Nature communications (09-05-2022)“…Extrapulmonary complications of different organ systems have been increasingly recognized in patients with severe or chronic Coronavirus Disease 2019…”
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Novel antiviral activity and mechanism of bromocriptine as a Zika virus NS2B-NS3 protease inhibitor
Published in Antiviral research (01-05-2017)“…Zika virus (ZIKV) infection is associated with congenital malformations in infected fetuses and severe neurological and other systemic complications in adults…”
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A broadly neutralizing antibody protects Syrian hamsters against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron challenge
Published in Nature communications (23-06-2022)“…The strikingly high transmissibility and antibody evasion of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants have posed great challenges to the efficacy of current vaccines and…”
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Oral SARS-CoV-2 Inoculation Establishes Subclinical Respiratory Infection with Virus Shedding in Golden Syrian Hamsters
Published in Cell reports. Medicine (20-10-2020)“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is transmitted largely by respiratory droplets or airborne aerosols. Despite being frequently…”
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Beneficial effect of combinational methylprednisolone and remdesivir in hamster model of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Published in Emerging microbes & infections (01-01-2021)“…Effective treatments for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are urgently needed…”
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The spike receptor-binding motif G496S substitution determines the replication fitness of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineage
Published in Emerging microbes & infections (31-12-2022)“…The replication and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 are comparable to that of BA.1 in experimental animal models. However, BA.2 has rapidly emerged to…”
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A molecularly engineered, broad-spectrum anti-coronavirus lectin inhibits SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV infection in vivo
Published in Cell reports. Medicine (18-10-2022)“…"Pan-coronavirus" antivirals targeting conserved viral components can be designed. Here, we show that the rationally engineered H84T-banana lectin…”
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P21-activated kinase 1 (PAK1)-mediated cytoskeleton rearrangement promotes SARS-CoV-2 entry and ACE2 autophagic degradation
Published in Signal transduction and targeted therapy (09-10-2023)“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has had a significant impact on…”
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A novel linker-immunodominant site (LIS) vaccine targeting the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein protects against severe COVID-19 in Syrian hamsters
Published in Emerging microbes & infections (01-01-2021)“…The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is unlikely to abate until sufficient herd immunity is built up by either natural infection or vaccination. We…”
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Differential cell line susceptibility to the emerging Zika virus: implications for disease pathogenesis, non-vector-borne human transmission and animal reservoirs
Published in Emerging microbes & infections (24-08-2016)“…Zika virus (ZIKV) is unique among human-pathogenic flaviviruses by its association with congenital anomalies and trans-placental and sexual human-to-human…”
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An H5N1-based matrix protein 2 ectodomain tetrameric peptide vaccine provides cross-protection against lethal infection with H7N9 influenza virus
Published in Emerging microbes & infections (01-04-2015)“…In March 2013, a patient infected with a novel avian influenza A H7N9 virus was reported in China. Since then, there have been 458 confirmed infection cases…”
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SREBP-dependent lipidomic reprogramming as a broad-spectrum antiviral target
Published in Nature communications (10-01-2019)“…Viruses are obligate intracellular microbes that exploit the host metabolic machineries to meet their biosynthetic demands, making these host pathways…”
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