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List of works by Hoi-Wah Tsoi

A familial cluster of pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus indicating person-to-person transmission: a study of a family cluster

scientific article published in February 2020

Bats host diverse parvoviruses as possible origin of mammalian dependoparvoviruses and source for bat-swine interspecies transmission.

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Characterization and complete genome sequence of a novel coronavirus, coronavirus HKU1, from patients with pneumonia

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Characterization of SARS-CoV main protease and identification of biologically active small molecule inhibitors using a continuous fluorescence-based assay.

scientific article published in October 2004

Characterization of a novel insertion sequence, IS Bp1, in Burkholderia pseudomallei.

scientific article published on 18 January 2002

Clinical and molecular epidemiological features of coronavirus HKU1-associated community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 20 October 2005

Clinical and virological factors associated with viremia in pandemic influenza A/H1N1/2009 virus infection

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Clinical features and complete genome characterization of a distinct human rhinovirus (HRV) genetic cluster, probably representing a previously undetected HRV species, HRV-C, associated with acute respiratory illness in children

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Comparative analysis of 22 coronavirus HKU1 genomes reveals a novel genotype and evidence of natural recombination in coronavirus HKU1

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Comparative analysis of six genome sequences of three novel picornaviruses, turdiviruses 1, 2 and 3, in dead wild birds, and proposal of two novel genera, Orthoturdivirus and Paraturdivirus, in the family Picornaviridae.

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

Comparative analysis of twelve genomes of three novel group 2c and group 2d coronaviruses reveals unique group and subgroup features

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Complete genome sequence of a novel picornavirus, canine picornavirus, discovered in dogs.

scientific article published on March 2012

Detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus nucleocapsid protein in sars patients by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

scientific article published on July 2004

Differential sensitivities of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus spike polypeptide enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and SARS coronavirus nucleocapsid protein ELISA for serodiagnosis of SARS coronavirus pneumonia.

scientific article published on July 2005

Discovery and genomic characterization of a novel ovine partetravirus and a new genotype of bovine partetravirus

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Emergence of enterovirus 71 "double-recombinant" strains belonging to a novel genotype D originating from southern China: first evidence for combination of intratypic and intertypic recombination events in EV71.

scientific article published on 13 June 2010

Human infections with the emerging avian influenza A H7N9 virus from wet market poultry: clinical analysis and characterisation of viral genome

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Human parainfluenza virus 4 outbreak and the role of diagnostic tests.

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Identification and characterization of a novel paramyxovirus, porcine parainfluenza virus 1, from deceased pigs.

scientific article published on 5 August 2013

Identification of a novel bat papillomavirus by metagenomics

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Identification of novel small-molecule inhibitors of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus by chemical genetics.

scientific article published in September 2004

Improved molecular diagnosis of COVID-19 by the novel, highly sensitive and specific COVID-19-RdRp/Hel real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay validated in vitro and with clinical specimens

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Molecular characterization of the 2011 Hong Kong scarlet fever outbreak

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Molecular diversity of coronaviruses in bats.

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Molecular epidemiology of canine picornavirus in Hong Kong and Dubai and proposal of a novel genus in Picornaviridae.

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Natural occurrence and characterization of two internal ribosome entry site elements in a novel virus, canine picodicistrovirus, in the picornavirus-like superfamily.

scientific article published on 28 December 2011

Natural selection retains overrepresented out-of-frame stop codons against frameshift peptides in prokaryotes

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Quasispecies of the D225G substitution in the hemagglutinin of pandemic influenza A(H1N1) 2009 virus from patients with severe disease in Hong Kong, China

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Rediscovery and genomic characterization of bovine astroviruses.

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SARS coronavirus spike polypeptide DNA vaccine priming with recombinant spike polypeptide from Escherichia coli as booster induces high titer of neutralizing antibody against SARS coronavirus.

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-like virus in Chinese horseshoe bats

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Simulation of the clinical and pathological manifestations of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in golden Syrian hamster model: implications for disease pathogenesis and transmissibility

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

Thermo-tolerant Campylobacter fetus bacteraemia identified by 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing: an emerging pathogen in immunocompromised patients

scientific article published in September 2002

Transmission of rat hepatitis E virus infection to humans in Hong Kong: a clinical and epidemiological analysis

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Two novel dromedary camel bocaparvoviruses from dromedaries in the Middle East with unique genomic features.

scientific article published on 14 June 2017