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A Smart Card-Based Electronic School Absenteeism System for Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance in Hong Kong: Design, Implementation, and Feasibility Assessment.

scientific article published on 6 October 2017

A Territorywide Prevalence Study on Blood-Borne and Enteric Viral Hepatitis in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

A chain multinomial model for estimating the real-time fatality rate of a disease, with an application to severe acute respiratory syndrome.

scientific article

A clinical prediction rule for diagnosing human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) in a hospital emergency department setting

scientific article

A comparative epidemiologic analysis of SARS in Hong Kong, Beijing and Taiwan

scientific article

A comparison study of realtime fatality rates: severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Toronto and Beijing, China

scientific article published on 15 December 2004

A joint analysis of influenza-associated hospitalizations and mortality in Hong Kong, 1998-2013.

scientific article

A population-based study on healthcare-seeking behaviour of persons with symptoms of respiratory and gastrointestinal-related infections in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

A profile of the online dissemination of national influenza surveillance data

scientific article (publication date: 16 September 2009)

A test for constant fatality rate of an emerging epidemic: with applications to severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong and Beijing.

scientific article published on 19 November 2007

Accounting for Imported Cases in Estimating the Time-Varying Reproductive Number of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Hong Kong

scientific article published in 2021

Accuracy of epidemiological inferences based on publicly available information: retrospective comparative analysis of line lists of human cases infected with influenza A(H7N9) in China

scientific article

Adiposity and influenza-associated respiratory mortality: a cohort study.

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Age and Sex Differences in Rates of Influenza-Associated Hospitalizations in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 27 July 2015

Analysis of potential changes in seriousness of influenza A and B viruses in Hong Kong from 2001 to 2011.

scientific article

Assessing scarlet fever re-emergence from notifiable disease surveillance in Hong Kong

Assessing the impact of respiratory infections and weather conditions on donor attendance and blood inventory in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 09 January 2019

Association between the Severity of Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Infections and Length of the Incubation Period

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Asymptomatic, mild, and severe influenza A(H7N9) virus infection in humans, Guangzhou, China

scientific article

Attitudinal changes toward control measures in live poultry markets among the general public and live poultry traders, Guangzhou, China, January-February, 2014.

scientific article published on 25 November 2014

Author Correction: Inferring time-varying generation time, serial interval, and incubation period distributions for COVID-19

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Avian Influenza Virus Detection Rates in Poultry and Environment at Live Poultry Markets, Guangdong, China

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Avian influenza and ban on overnight poultry storage in live poultry markets, Hong Kong

scientific article

Avian influenza human infections at the human-animal interface

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Burden of influenza-associated outpatient influenza-like illness consultations in China, 2006-2015: A population-based study

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Changing disparities in COVID-19 burden in the ethnically homogeneous population of Hong Kong through pandemic waves: an observational study

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

Characterizing Human Collective Behaviors During COVID-19 - Hong Kong SAR, China, 2020

Clinical Improvement, Outcomes, Antiviral Activity, and Costs Associated With Early Treatment With Remdesivir for Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

scientific article published in 2022

Clinical outcomes of different therapeutic options for COVID-19 in two Chinese case cohorts: A propensity-score analysis

Clinical severity of human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus, China, 2013/14

scientific article published on 11 December 2014

Clinical, laboratory, and radiological features indicative of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in emergency departments - a multicentre case-control study in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 20 June 2020

Clustering and superspreading potential of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Comparative epidemiology of human infections with avian influenza A H7N9 and H5N1 viruses in China: a population-based study of laboratory-confirmed cases.

scientific article published on 24 June 2013

Comparison of serological assays in human Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-coronavirus infection

scientific article published on October 2015

Correction to: Transmission dynamics and control of two epidemic waves of SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea

Correction: Routine Pediatric Enterovirus 71 Vaccination in China: a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

Cost-effectiveness of introducing national seasonal influenza vaccination for adults aged 60 years and above in mainland China: a modelling analysis

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

Decreased Use of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Epidemic in South Korea

scientific article published in 2021

Detection of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses in Air Sampled From a University Campus: A Longitudinal Study

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Different Circulation Pattern of Multiple Respiratory Viruses in Southern China During the COVID-19 Pandemic

scientific article published in 2021

Digital dashboard design using multiple data streams for disease surveillance with influenza surveillance as an example

scientific article

Dynamic interactions of influenza viruses in Hong Kong during 1998-2018

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Early public response to influenza A(H7N9) virus, Guangzhou, China, May 30-June 7, 2013.

scientific article published on July 2014

Effect of Live Poultry Market Closure on Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Activity in Guangzhou, China, 2014

scientific article

Effect of changing case definitions for COVID-19 on the epidemic curve and transmission parameters in mainland China: a modelling study

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Effect of closure of live poultry markets on poultry-to-person transmission of avian influenza A H7N9 virus: an ecological study.

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

Effect of interventions on influenza A (H9N2) isolation in Hong Kong's live poultry markets, 1999-2005.

scientific article published in September 2007

Effectiveness of ribavirin and corticosteroids for severe acute respiratory syndrome

scientific article published in December 2009

Effects of nucleoside analogue prescription for hepatitis B on the incidence of liver cancer in Hong Kong: a territory-wide ecological study.

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

Effects of school closures, 2008 winter influenza season, Hong Kong.

scientific article published in October 2008

Effects of school holidays on seasonal influenza in South Korea, 2014-2016

scientific article published on 11 April 2020

Electronic school absenteeism monitoring and influenza surveillance, Hong Kong.

scientific article published in May 2012

Epidemiology of Reemerging Scarlet Fever, Hong Kong, 2005-2015.

scientific article published on October 2017

Epidemiology of human infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in Guangdong, 2016 to 2017.

scientific article

Estimating the Distribution of the Incubation Periods of Human Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Infections.

scientific article

Estimating the Latent Period of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

scientific article published in 2021

Estimating the Severity Profile of Enterovirus A71 Infections in Children: A Bayesian Synthesis Framework

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Estimating the incubation period of hand, foot and mouth disease for children in different age groups.

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Evaluation of animal-to-human and human-to-human transmission of influenza A (H7N9) virus in China, 2013-15.

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Evolution of effective serial interval of SARS-CoV-2 by non-pharmaceutical interventions

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-positive Escherichia coli mainly adds to, rather than replaces, extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-negative E. coli in causing bacteraemia in Hong Kong, 2000-10.

scientific article

Forecasting Influenza Epidemics in Hong Kong

scientific article

Hepatitis B reactivation in occult viral carriers undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: A prospective study.

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

Heterogeneity in Estimates of the Impact of Influenza on Population Mortality: A Systematic Review.

scientific article

Hospitalizations and mortality during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong, China: An observational study

Hot Weather and Suicide Deaths among Older Adults in Hong Kong, 1976-2014: A Retrospective Study

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Human Infection with Influenza A(H7N9) Virus during 3 Major Epidemic Waves, China, 2013-2015.

scientific article published on June 2016

Human infection with avian influenza A H7N9 virus: an assessment of clinical severity.

scientific article

Human mesenchymal stromal cells reduce influenza A H5N1-associated acute lung injury in vitro and in vivo.

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Identifying Key Transmission Route of Avian Influenza A(H9N2) in Live Poultry Markets.

scientific article published in May 2017

Impact of changing case definitions for COVID-19 on the epidemic curve and transmission parameters in mainland China

scientific article (preprint)

Impact of mass rapid antigen testing for SARS-CoV-2 to mitigate Omicron outbreaks in China

Incorporating temporal distribution of population-level viral load enables real-time estimation of COVID-19 transmission

Increases in absenteeism among health care workers in Hong Kong during influenza epidemics, 2004-2009.

scientific article

Infection fatality risk of the pandemic A(H1N1)2009 virus in Hong Kong.

scientific article

Inferring time-varying generation time, serial interval, and incubation period distributions for COVID-19

scholarly article

Influenza A virus transmission in swine farms and during transport in the swine supply chain

Influenza H5/H7 Virus Vaccination in Poultry and Reduction of Zoonotic Infections, Guangdong Province, China, 2017-18

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Influenza-associated excess respiratory mortality in China, 2010-15: a population-based study

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Injury patterns of mass casualty incidents involving high-speed passenger ferries presenting to accident and emergency departments in Hong Kong: a retrospective review

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

International risk of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant importations originating in South Africa

International risk of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant importations originating in South Africa

International risk of the new variant COVID-19 importations originating in the United Kingdom

Joint Estimation of Generation Time and Incubation Period for Coronavirus Disease 2019

scientific article published in 2021

Joint analysis of vaccination effectiveness and antiviral drug effectiveness for COVID-19: a causal inference approach

scientific article published in 2024

Kinetics of Serologic Responses to MERS Coronavirus Infection in Humans, South Korea

scientific article

Knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to influenza A(H7N9) risk among live poultry traders in Guangzhou City, China

scientific article

Limited onward transmission potential of reassortment genotypes from chickens co-infected with H9N2 and H7N9 avian influenza viruses

Live Bird Exposure among the General Public, Guangzhou, China, May 2013

scientific article

Long-term persistence of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody responses after infection and estimates of the duration of protection

MERS-CoV Antibody Responses 1 Year after Symptom Onset, South Korea, 2015.

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Measuring moral hazard and adverse selection by propensity scoring in the mixed health care economy of Hong Kong

scientific article published on April 2010

Mitigation of Influenza B Epidemic with School Closures, Hong Kong, 2018

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Modeling comparative cost-effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine dose fractionation in India

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Monitoring Avian Influenza Viruses from Chicken Carcasses Sold at Markets, China, 2016.

scientific article published on 15 October 2017

Monitoring School Absenteeism for Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Multistream influenza surveillance for situational awareness

Neutralizing antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant BA.1 following homologous and heterologous CoronaVac or BNT162b2 vaccination

Neutralizing antibody titres in SARS-CoV-2 infections

Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir use in pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infection: a target trial emulation

scientific article published in November 2023

Optimal Timing of Remdesivir Initiation in Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Administered With Dexamethasone

scientific article published in 2022

Optimizing use of multistream influenza sentinel surveillance data.

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Performance of a three-level triage scale in live triage encounters in an emergency department in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Poultry market closures and human infection with influenza A(H7N9) virus, China, 2013-14.

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Predicting future blood demand from thalassemia major patients in Hong Kong

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Prediction of upcoming global infection burden of influenza seasons after relaxation of public health and social measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: a modelling study

Preliminary inferences on the age-specific seriousness of human disease caused by avian influenza A(H7N9) infections in China, March to April 2013.

scientific article published on 09 May 2013

Prevalence of bone mineral density loss and potential risk factors for osteopenia and osteoporosis in rheumatic patients in China: logistic regression and random forest analysis

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Re: "A chain multinomial model for estimating the real-time fatality rate of a disease, with an application to severe acute respiratory syndrome".

scientific article

Real-time estimation of the hospitalization fatality risk of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Hong Kong

scientific article

Real-time tentative assessment of the epidemiological characteristics of novel coronavirus infections in Wuhan, China, as at 22 January 2020

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Reconstruction of Transmission Pairs for novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in mainland China: Estimation of Super-spreading Events, Serial Interval, and Hazard of Infection

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Reply to: Is presymptomatic spread a major contributor to COVID-19 transmission?

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Reproduction Number of the Omicron Variant Triples That of the Delta Variant

scientific article published in 2022

Reproduction Numbers of SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

scientific article published on 16 February 2022

Reproduction number of monkeypox in the early stage of the 2022 multi-country outbreak

Restaurant-Based Measures to Control Community Transmission of COVID-19, Hong Kong

Rising epidemic of HIV-1 infections among general populations in Fujian, China

scientific article published on 01 July 2012

Risk for International Importations of Variant SARS-CoV-2 Originating in the United Kingdom

scientific article published in May 2021

Risk of acute liver injury following the nirmatrelvir/ritonavir use

Risk of within-hotel transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during on-arrival quarantine in Hong Kong: an epidemiological and phylogenomic investigation

RiskEstim: A Software Package to Quantify COVID-19 Importation Risk

scientific article published in 2022

Robustness of the ferret model for influenza risk assessment studies: a cross-laboratory exercise

Routine Pediatric Enterovirus 71 Vaccination in China: a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

scientific article

SARS-CoV-2 specific T cell responses are lower in children and increase with age and time after infection

SARS-CoV-2 specific T cell responses are lower in children and increase with age and time after infection

Scarlet fever outbreak, Hong Kong, 2011.

scientific article published on October 2012

School closure and mitigation of pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Hong Kong

scientific article

Seasonality of avian influenza A(H7N9) activity and risk of human A(H7N9) infections from live poultry markets

scientific article published on 10 September 2015

Sequelae of COVID-19 among previously hospitalized patients up to 1 year after discharge: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published in 2022

Sequential introduction of single room isolation and hand hygiene campaign in the control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in intensive care unit

scientific article

Serial Intervals and Case Isolation Delays for Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published in March 2022

Serial interval of SARS-CoV-2 was shortened over time by nonpharmaceutical interventions

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Seroprevalence of Enterovirus 71 Antibody Among Children in China: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

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Shorter serial intervals and incubation periods in SARS-CoV-2 variants than the SARS-CoV-2 ancestral strain

Situational awareness of influenza activity based on multiple streams of surveillance data using multivariate dynamic linear model.

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Slower Recovery with Early Lopinavir/Ritonavir use in Pediatric COVID-19 Patients: A Retrospective Observational Study

Social contact patterns relevant to the spread of respiratory infectious diseases in Hong Kong.

scientific article published on 11 August 2017

Studying the transmission dynamics of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Hong Kong using spa typing

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Synchrony of clinical and laboratory surveillance for influenza in Hong Kong

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Systematic review and meta-analyses of superspreading of SARS-CoV-2 infections

T-cell responses to MERS coronavirus infection in people with occupational exposure to dromedary camels in Nigeria: an observational cohort study

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19

scientific article (preprint)

The SARS-CoV-2 antibody landscape is lower in magnitude for structural proteins, diversified for accessory proteins and stable long-term in children

The Structural Identifiability of a Humidity-Driven Epidemiological Model of Influenza Transmission

scientific article published in 2022

The differential importation risks of COVID-19 from inbound travellers and the feasibility of targeted travel controls: A case study in Hong Kong

The economic burden of influenza-associated outpatient visits and hospitalizations in China: a retrospective survey.

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The effective reproduction number of pandemic influenza: prospective estimation

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The epidemiological and public health research response to 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1): experiences from Hong Kong

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The impact of the minimum wage on suicide rates in Hong Kong

scientific article published in 2022

The limited value of triage vital signs in predicting influenza infection in children aged 5 years and under in the emergency department: A single-center retrospective cross-sectional study

The transmission dynamics of tuberculosis in a recently developed Chinese city

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Transmissibility of the Ice Bucket Challenge among globally influential celebrities: retrospective cohort study

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Transmission Risk of Avian Influenza Virus along Poultry Supply Chains in Guangdong, China

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Transmission dynamics and control of two epidemic waves of SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea

Transmission dynamics and epidemiological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant infections in Guangdong, China, May to June 2021

Transmission of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease and Its Potential Driving Factors in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 07 June 2016

Treatment for Severe Lupus Nephritis: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in China

Use of DPP4i reduced odds of clinical deterioration and hyperinflammatory syndrome in COVID-19 patients with type 2 diabetes: Propensity score analysis of a territory-wide cohort in Hong Kong

scholarly article

Using Social Media for Actionable Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Management: A Systematic Literature Review

scientific article

Vancomycin MIC creep in MRSA isolates from 1997 to 2008 in a healthcare region in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 2 December 2009

Variation in Influenza B Virus Epidemiology by Lineage, China

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Viral shedding and clinical illness in naturally acquired influenza virus infections

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Waning Immunity After Receipt of Pertussis, Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Polio-Related Vaccines: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

scientific article published in 2021

Waterfowl as the main reservoir of avian influenza A (H5N6) virus in wet markets.

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Years of life lost in the first wave of the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic in Hong Kong.

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