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Patrick C. Y. Woo
Researcher at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
Publications - 621
Citations - 37320
Patrick C. Y. Woo is an academic researcher from Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong. The author has contributed to research in topics: Coronavirus & Gene. The author has an hindex of 85, co-authored 593 publications receiving 31877 citations. Previous affiliations of Patrick C. Y. Woo include The Chinese University of Hong Kong & Kwong Wah Hospital.
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-like virus in Chinese horseshoe bats
Susanna K. P. Lau,Patrick C. Y. Woo,Kenneth S. M. Li,Yi Huang,Hoi-Wah Tsoi,Beatrice H.L. Wong,Samson S. Y. Wong,Suet Yi Leung,Kwok-Hung Chan,Kwok-Yung Yuen +9 more
TL;DR: In a surveillance study for CoV in noncaged animals from the wild areas of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region, a CoV closely related to SARS-CoV is identified from 23 (39%) of 59 anal swabs of wild Chinese horseshoe bats by using RT-PCR and the presence of a 29-bp insertion in ORF 8 of bat-SARS- coV genome suggests that it has a common ancestor with civet SARS -CoV.
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Characterization and Complete Genome Sequence of a Novel Coronavirus, Coronavirus HKU1, from Patients with Pneumonia
Patrick C. Y. Woo,Susanna K. P. Lau,Chung-Ming Chu,Kwok-Hung Chan,Hoi-Wah Tsoi,Yi Huang,Beatrice H.L. Wong,Rosana W.S. Poon,James J. Cai,Wei-Kwang Luk,Leo L.M. Poon,Samson S. Y. Wong,Yi Guan,J. S. Malik Peiris,Kwok-Yung Yuen +14 more
TL;DR: The data support the existence of a novel group 2 coronavirus associated with pneumonia in humans, CoV-HKU1, from a 71-year-old man with pneumonia who had just returned from Shenzhen, China.
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Discovery of Seven Novel Mammalian and Avian Coronaviruses in the Genus Deltacoronavirus Supports Bat Coronaviruses as the Gene Source of Alphacoronavirus and Betacoronavirus and Avian Coronaviruses as the Gene Source of Gammacoronavirus and Deltacoronavirus
Patrick C. Y. Woo,Susanna K. P. Lau,Carol S. F. Lam,Candy C. Y. Lau,Alan K.L. Tsang,John H. Lau,Ru Bai,Jade L. L. Teng,Chris C. C. Tsang,Ming Wang,Bo-Jian Zheng,Kwok-Hung Chan,Kwok-Yung Yuen +12 more
TL;DR: It appears that bats and birds, the warm blooded flying vertebrates, are ideal hosts for the coronavirus gene source and birds for Gammacoronavirus and Deltacor onavirus, to fuel coronav virus evolution and dissemination.
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): announcement of the Coronavirus Study Group.
Raoul J. de Groot,Susan C. Baker,Ralph S. Baric,Caroline Brown,Christian Drosten,Luis Enjuanes,Ron A. M. Fouchier,Monica Galiano,Alexander E. Gorbalenya,Ziad A. Memish,Stanley Perlman,Leo L.M. Poon,Eric J. Snijder,Gwen Stephens,Patrick C. Y. Woo,Ali Moh Zaki,Maria Zambon,John Ziebuhr +17 more
TL;DR: During the summer of 2012, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a hitherto unknown coronavirus was isolated from the sputum of a patient with acute pneumonia and renal failure and was provisionally called human coronav virus Erasmus Medical Center (EMC).
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of Emerging and Reemerging Infection
TL;DR: The findings that horseshoe bats are the natural reservoir for SARS-CoV-like virus and that civets are the amplification host highlight the importance of wildlife and biosecurity in farms and wet markets, which can serve as the source and amplification centers for emerging infections.