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William Yiu-Man Cheung
Researcher at University of Hong Kong
Publications - 2
Citations - 1587
William Yiu-Man Cheung is an academic researcher from University of Hong Kong. The author has contributed to research in topics: Coronavirus & Manis. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 1211 citations.
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Identifying SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins.
Tommy Tsan-Yuk Lam,Na Jia,Ya-Wei Zhang,Marcus Ho-Hin Shum,Jia-Fu Jiang,Hongbo Zhu,Yigang Tong,Yongxia Shi,Xue-Bing Ni,Yunshi Liao,Wen-Juan Li,Bao-Gui Jiang,Wei Wei,Ting-Ting Yuan,Kui Zheng,Xiao-Ming Cui,Jie Li,Guangqian Pei,Xin Qiang,William Yiu-Man Cheung,Lian-Feng Li,Fang-Fang Sun,Si Qin,Jicheng Huang,Gabriel M. Leung,Edward C. Holmes,Yan-Ling Hu,Yi Guan,Wu-Chun Cao +28 more
TL;DR: The discovery of multiple lineages of pangolin coronavirus and their similarity to SARS-CoV-2 suggests that pangolins should be considered as possible hosts in the emergence of new coronaviruses and should be removed from wet markets to prevent zoonotic transmission.
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Identification of 2019-nCoV related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins in southern China
Tommy Tsan-Yuk Lam,Marcus Ho-Hin Shum,Hongbo Zhu,Yigang Tong,Xue-Bing Ni,Yunshi Liao,Wei Wei,William Yiu-Man Cheung,Wen-Juan Li,Lian-Feng Li,Gabriel M. Leung,Edward C. Holmes,Yan-Ling Hu,Yi Guan +13 more
TL;DR: The discovery of multiple lineages of pangolin coronavirus and their similarity to 2019-nCoV suggests that pangolins should be considered as possible intermediate hosts for this novel human virus and should be removed from wet markets to prevent zoonotic transmission.