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Robin Gopal
Researcher at Public Health England
Publications - 45
Citations - 6510
Robin Gopal is an academic researcher from Public Health England. The author has contributed to research in topics: Virus & Coronavirus. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 44 publications receiving 4894 citations. Previous affiliations of Robin Gopal include Health Protection Agency.
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Newly discovered coronavirus as the primary cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome
Thijs Kuiken,Ron A. M. Fouchier,Martin Schutten,Guus F. Rimmelzwaan,Geert van Amerongen,Debby van Riel,Jon D. Laman,Ton de Jong,Gerard J. J. van Doornum,Wilina Lim,Ai Ee Ling,Paul K.S. Chan,John S. Tam,Maria Zambon,Robin Gopal,Christian Drosten,Sylvie van der Werf,Nicolas Escriou,Jean Claude Manuguerra,Klaus Stöhr,J. S. Malik Peiris,Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus +21 more
TL;DR: Replication in Sars-CoV-infected macaques of pneumonia similar to that in human beings with SARS, combined with the high prevalence of SARS- CoV infection in SARS patients, fulfill the criteria required to prove that SARS -CoV is the primary cause of Sars.
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Duration of infectiousness and correlation with RT-PCR cycle threshold values in cases of COVID-19, England, January to May 2020.
Anika Singanayagam,Monika Patel,Andre Charlett,Jamie Lopez Bernal,Vanessa Saliba,Joanna Ellis,Shamez N Ladhani,Maria Zambon,Robin Gopal +8 more
TL;DR: Probability of culturing virus declines to 8% in samples with Ct > 35 and to 6% 10 days after onset and it is similar in asymptomatic and symptomatic persons.
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COVID-19 vaccine coverage in health-care workers in England and effectiveness of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine against infection (SIREN): a prospective, multicentre, cohort study.
Victoria Hall,Victoria Hall,Sarah Foulkes,Ayoub Saei,Nick Andrews,Nick Andrews,Blanche Oguti,Blanche Oguti,Andre Charlett,Andre Charlett,Andre Charlett,Edgar Wellington,Julia Stowe,Natalie Gillson,Ana Atti,Jasmin Islam,Ioannis Karagiannis,Katie Munro,Jameel Khawam,Meera Chand,Colin S Brown,Mary Ramsay,Mary Ramsay,Jamie Lopez-Bernal,Susan Hopkins,Susan Hopkins,N Andrews,A Atti,H Aziz,Tim Brooks,CS Brown,D Camero,C Carr,MA Chand,A Charlett,Hayley Crawford,Michael J. Cole,J Conneely,Silvia D'Arcangelo,Joanna Ellis,S Evans,S Foulkes,N Gillson,Robin Gopal,L Hall,V J Hall,P Harrington,Susan R. Hopkins,Jacqueline Hewson,Katja Hoschler,D Ironmonger,J Islam,Meaghan Kall,I Karagiannis,O Kay,J Khawam,E King,Peter Kirwan,R Kyffin,Angie Lackenby,M Lattimore,Ezra Linley,J Lopez-Bernal,L Mabey,Reuben McGregor,Shahjahan Miah,Ejm Monk,K Munro,Z Naheed,A Nissr,A M O'Connell,B Oguti,Henrietta U. Okafor,S Organ,J Osbourne,Ashley Otter,Minal Patel,Steven Platt,D Pople,K Potts,M Ramsay,Julie V. Robotham,Sakib Rokadiya,Cathy Rowe,A Saei,G Sebbage,Amanda Semper,Madhumita Shrotri,Ruth Simmons,Alex Soriano,P Staves,S Taylor,Arthur Taylor,A Tengbe,S Tonge,Amoolya Vusirikala,Sarah Wallace,E Wellington,Maria Zambon,D Corrigan,M Sartaj,L Cromey,Sharon Campbell,K Braithwaite,L Price,L Haahr,S Stewart,ED Lacey,Linda Partridge,Gretchen A Stevens,Y Ellis,H Hodgson,C Norman,B Larru,S Mcwilliam,A Roynon,J Northfield,Stephen Winchester,P Cieciwa,Aditi Pai,P Bakker,C Loughrey,A Watt,F Adair,Adrian Hawkins,Alastair Grant,R Temple-Purcell,J Howard,N Slawson,C Subudhi,Shân Davies,A Bexley,R Penn,N Wong,G Boyd,A Rajgopal,A Arenas-Pinto,R Matthews,A Whileman,R Laugharne,J Ledger,Trevor J. Barnes,Chris Jones,N Osuji,N Chitalia,T Bailey,S Akhtar,G Harrison,S Horne,Naomi F. Walker,Ken Agwuh,V Maxwell,J Graves,Stephen R. Williams,A O'Kelly,P Ridley,A Cowley,H Johnstone,P Swift,Jane Democratis,Manjula Meda,S Brake,J Gunn,A Selassi,S Hams,V Irvine,Badrinathan Chandrasekaran,C Forsyth,J Radmore,C Thomas,Kevin K. Brown,Stuart K. Roberts,P Burns,K Gajee,T Lewis,T M Byrne,F Sanderson,Stephen R Knight,Emily MacNaughton,Bjl Burton,Helen V. Smith,R Chaudhuri,J Aeron-Thomas,K Hollinshead,R.J. Shorten,A Swan,C Favager,J Murira,S Baillon,S Hamer,Aarti Shah,J Russell,D Brennan,A Dave,Ajay Chawla,F Westwell,D Adeboyeku,Padmasayee Papineni,C Pegg,Martin S. Williams,Shazaad Ahmad,Alex Horsley,Christian Gabriel,K Pagget,G Maloney,J Ashcroft,I Del Rosario,R Crosby-Nwaobi,D Flanagan,D Dhasmana,Stephen J. Fowler,E Cameron,L Prentice,C Sinclair,V Bateman,K McLelland-Brooks,A Ho,Michael P. Murphy,A Cochrane,A Gibson,K. Black,K Tempeton,Stacey Donaldson,L Coke,N Elumogo,J Elliott,Debra Padgett,A Cross,Mariyam Mirfenderesky,S Joyce,I Sinanovic,M Howard,P Cowling,M Brazil,E Hanna,A Abdelrazik,S Brand,EA Sheridan,B Wadams,A Lloyd,J Mouland,J Giles,G Pottinger,H Coles,Mark Joseph,M Lee,S Orr,H Chenoweth,D Browne,Cressida Auckland,R Lear,Tabitha Mahungu,Alison Rodger,Simon Warren,D Brooking,S Pai,R Druyeh,Edward M. Smith,S. Stone,Sarah Meisner,D Delgado,E Underhill,L Keen,M Aga,P Domingos,S Gormley,Caroline Kerrison,S Birch,T DeSilva,L Allsop,S Ambalkar,M Beekes,S Jose,J Tomlinson,Sharen Painter,Claire Price,Justin Pepperell,Keith D. James,T Trinick,L Moore,Jeremy N. Day,A Boulos,I Knox,E Defever,D McCracken,K Gray,A Houston,Tim Planche,R Pritchard Jones,Diane Wycherley,Sara Bennett,J Marrs,K Nimako,Benjamin J. Stewart,SC Bain,N Kalakonda,S Khanduri,A Ashby,Matthew T. G. Holden,N Mahabir,J Harwood,Brendan A I Payne,K Court,Nicholas J. White,R Longfellow,L E Hughes,M E Green,M Halkes,P Mercer,A Roebuck,Eleri Wilson-Davies,L Gallego,Rajeka Lazarus,N Aldridge,Louise Berry,Frances L. Game,Timothy M Reynolds,Christopher W Holmes,Martin Wiselka,A Higham,M Booth,C Duff,J Alderton,D Hilton,J Powell,Alan Jackson,AJ Plant,Nada Ahmed,T Chin,M Z Qazzafi,A M Moody,Robert Tilley,T Donaghy,M O'Kane,K Shipman,R Sierra,Chetan Parmar,Gordon B. Mills,Daniel Harvey,Ywj Huang,J Birch,Louise Robinson,S Board,A Broadley,C Laven,N Todd,David W Eyre,Katie Jeffery,Susanna Dunachie,Christopher J A Duncan,Paul Klenerman,Lance Turtle,Helen Baxendale,Jonathan L. Heeney +353 more
TL;DR: The SIREN study as discussed by the authors showed that the BNT162b2 vaccine can prevent both symptomatic and asymptomatic infection in working-age adults in the UK.
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Unexpected Receptor Functional Mimicry Elucidates Activation of Coronavirus Fusion
Alexandra C. Walls,Xiaoli Xiong,Young-Jun Park,M. Alejandra Tortorici,M. Alejandra Tortorici,Joost Snijder,Joel Quispe,Elisabetta Cameroni,Robin Gopal,Mian Dai,Antonio Lanzavecchia,Maria Zambon,Félix A. Rey,Davide Corti,David Veesler +14 more
TL;DR: To understand the humoral immune response elicited upon natural infections with coronaviruses, a structural framework is provided for understanding coronavirus neutralization by human antibodies and light is shed on activation of coronav virus membrane fusion, which takes place through a receptor-driven ratcheting mechanism.
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Detection of a novel human coronavirus by real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction
Victor M. Corman,Isabella Eckerle,Tobias Bleicker,Ali Moh Zaki,Olfert Landt,Monika Eschbach-Bludau,S. van Boheemen,Robin Gopal,M Ballhause,Theo M. Bestebroer,Doreen Muth,Marcel A. Müller,Jan Felix Drexler,Maria Zambon,A.D.M.E. Osterhaus,R M Fouchier,Christian Drosten +16 more
TL;DR: Two real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction assays for a novel human coronavirus, targeting regions upstream of the E gene (upE) or within open reading frame (ORF)1b, respectively, observed no cross-reactivity with coronaviruses OC43, NL63, 229E, SARS-CoV or with 92 clinical specimens containing common human respiratory viruses.