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First discovery of two polyketide synthase genes for mitorubrinic acid and mitorubrinol yellow pigment biosynthesis and implications in virulence of Penicillium marneffei by Woo, Patrick C Y, Lam, Ching-Wan, Tam, Emily W T, Leung, Chris K F, Wong, Samson S Y, Lau, Susanna K P, Yuen, Kwok-Yung

“…The genome of P. marneffei, the most important thermal dimorphic fungus causing respiratory, skin and systemic mycosis in China and Southeast Asia, possesses…”
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High diversity of polyketide synthase genes and the melanin biosynthesis gene cluster in Penicillium marneffei by Woo, Patrick C.Y, Tam, Emily W.T, Chong, Ken T.K, Cai, James J, Tung, Edward T.K, Ngan, Antonio H.Y, Lau, Susanna K.P, Yuen, Kwok-Yung

“…Despite the unique phenotypic properties and clinical importance of Penicillium marneffei, the polyketide synthase genes in its genome have never been…”
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The biosynthetic pathway for a thousand-year-old natural food colorant and citrinin in Penicillium marneffei by Woo, Patrick C. Y., Lam, Ching-Wan, Tam, Emily W. T., Lee, Kim-Chung, Yung, Karrie K. Y., Leung, Chris K. F., Sze, Kong-Hung, Lau, Susanna K. P., Yuen, Kwok-Yung

“…Monascorubrin and its derivatives are polyketides used as natural colorants for a wide range of food for more than one thousand years. Since the biosynthetic…”
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Misidentification of Aspergillus nomius and Aspergillus tamarii as Aspergillus flavus: characterization by internal transcribed spacer, β-Tubulin, and calmodulin gene sequencing, metabolic fingerprinting, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry by Tam, Emily W T, Chen, Jonathan H K, Lau, Eunice C L, Ngan, Antonio H Y, Fung, Kitty S C, Lee, Kim-Chung, Lam, Ching-Wan, Yuen, Kwok-Yung, Lau, Susanna K P, Woo, Patrick C Y

“…Aspergillus nomius and Aspergillus tamarii are Aspergillus species that phenotypically resemble Aspergillus flavus. In the last decade, a number of case…”
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Polyketides, toxins and pigments in Penicillium marneffei by Tam, Emily W T, Tsang, Chi-Ching, Lau, Susanna K P, Woo, Patrick C Y

“…Penicillium marneffei (synonym: Talaromyces marneffei) is the most important pathogenic thermally dimorphic fungus in China and Southeastern Asia. The HIV/AIDS…”
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Genetic diversity of Aspergillus species isolated from onychomycosis and Aspergillus hongkongensis sp. nov., with implications to antifungal susceptibility testing by Tsang, Chi-Ching, Hui, Teresa W.S, Lee, Kim-Chung, Chen, Jonathan H.K, Ngan, Antonio H.Y, Tam, Emily W.T, Chan, Jasper F.W, Wu, Andrea L, Cheung, Mei, Tse, Brian P.H, Wu, Alan K.L, Lai, Christopher K.C, Tsang, Dominic N.C, Que, Tak-Lun, Lam, Ching-Wan, Yuen, Kwok-Yung, Lau, Susanna K.P, Woo, Patrick C.Y

“…Abstract Thirteen Aspergillus isolates recovered from nails of 13 patients (fingernails, n = 2; toenails, n = 11) with onychomycosis were characterized. Twelve…”
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Metabolomics Analysis Reveals Specific Novel Tetrapeptide and Potential Anti-Inflammatory Metabolites in Pathogenic Aspergillus species by Lee, Kim-Chung, Tam, Emily W T, Lo, Ka-Ching, Tsang, Alan K L, Lau, Candy C Y, To, Kelvin K W, Chan, Jasper F W, Lam, Ching-Wan, Yuen, Kwok-Yung, Lau, Susanna K P, Woo, Patrick C Y

“…Infections related to Aspergillus species have emerged to become an important focus in infectious diseases, as a result of the increasing use of…”
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Fatal systemic necrotizing infections associated with a novel paramyxovirus, anaconda paramyxovirus, in green anaconda juveniles by Woo, Patrick C Y, Lau, Susanna K P, Martelli, Paolo, Hui, Suk-Wai, Lau, Candy C Y, Fan, Rachel Y Y, Groff, Joseph M, Tam, Emily W T, Chan, Kwok-Hung, Yuen, Kwok-Yung

“…Beginning in July 2011, 31 green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) juveniles from an oceanarium in Hong Kong died over a 12-month period. Necropsy revealed at least…”
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Role of the Talaromyces marneffei (Penicillium marneffei) sakA gene in nitrosative stress response, conidiation and red pigment production by Nimmanee, Panjaphorn, Tam, Emily W. T., Woo, Patrick C. Y., Vanittanakom, Pramote, Vanittanakom, Nongnuch

“…Abstract Stress-activated MAPK pathways are systems used to regulate the stress adaptation of most fungi. It has been shown that in Talaromyces marneffei…”
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Comparative mitogenomic and phylogenetic characterization on the complete mitogenomes of Talaromyces (Penicillium) marneffei by Tam, Emily W. T., Tsang, Chi-Ching, Lau, Susanna K. P., Woo, Patrick C. Y.

“…We report the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of four Talaromyces marneffei strains and performed comparative genomic and phylogenetic analyses…”
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Molecular identification of cestodes and nematodes by cox1 gene real-time PCR and sequencing by Poon, Rosana W.S., Tam, Emily W.T., Lau, Susanna K.P., Cheng, Vincent C.C., Yuen, Kwok-Yung, Schuster, Rolf K., Woo, Patrick C.Y.

“…Unlike bacteria and fungi, identification of helminths by gene sequencing is not well-standardized. No “pan-cestode” or “pan-nematode” PCR primers are…”
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