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pro vyhledávání: '"Dillon C. Adam"'
Autor:
Mario Martín-Sánchez, Peng Wu, Dillon C. Adam, Bingyi Yang, Wey Wen Lim, Yun Lin, Eric H.Y. Lau, Sheena G. Sullivan, Gabriel M. Leung, Benjamin J. Cowling
Publikováno v:
Public Health in Practice, Vol 8, Iss , Pp 100525- (2024)
Background: Hong Kong enforced stringent travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the characteristics of imported COVID-19 cases is important for establishing evidence-based control measures. Methods: Retrospective cohort study
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/d9ad9602cd0943d98e2b718636fbf188
Autor:
Ruopeng Xie, Kimberly M. Edwards, Dillon C. Adam, Kathy S. M. Leung, Tim K. Tsang, Shreya Gurung, Weijia Xiong, Xiaoman Wei, Daisy Y. M. Ng, Gigi Y. Z. Liu, Pavithra Krishnan, Lydia D. J. Chang, Samuel M. S. Cheng, Haogao Gu, Gilman K. H. Siu, Joseph T. Wu, Gabriel M. Leung, Malik Peiris, Benjamin J. Cowling, Leo L. M. Poon, Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran
Publikováno v:
Nature Communications, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2023)
Abstract Hong Kong experienced a surge of Omicron BA.2 infections in early 2022, resulting in one of the highest per-capita death rates of COVID-19. The outbreak occurred in a dense population with low immunity towards natural SARS-CoV-2 infection, h
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/3c24ac7607ae4f6faad965ebd47a4406
Autor:
Yun Lin, Bingyi Yang, Sarah Cobey, Eric H. Y. Lau, Dillon C. Adam, Jessica Y. Wong, Helen S. Bond, Justin K. Cheung, Faith Ho, Huizhi Gao, Sheikh Taslim Ali, Nancy H. L. Leung, Tim K. Tsang, Peng Wu, Gabriel M. Leung, Benjamin J. Cowling
Publikováno v:
Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2022)
The time-varying effective reproductive number (Rt) is useful for monitoring transmission of infections such as COVID-19, but reporting delays impact case count-based estimation methods. Here, the authors demonstrate and validate a method for estimat
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/ad4acc1e524a40de9d1386d6acf90e13
Autor:
Haogao Gu, Ruopeng Xie, Dillon C. Adam, Joseph L.-H. Tsui, Daniel K. Chu, Lydia D. J. Chang, Sammi S. Y. Cheuk, Shreya Gurung, Pavithra Krishnan, Daisy Y. M. Ng, Gigi Y. Z. Liu, Carrie K. C. Wan, Samuel S. M. Cheng, Kimberly M. Edwards, Kathy S. M. Leung, Joseph T. Wu, Dominic N. C. Tsang, Gabriel M. Leung, Benjamin J. Cowling, Malik Peiris, Tommy T. Y. Lam, Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran, Leo L. M. Poon
Publikováno v:
Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2022)
Hong Kong has used an elimination strategy to control SARS-CoV-2 with stringent measures including traveller quarantine. Here, the authors show that the majority of community-acquired cases until January 2021 resulted from three importations, and tha
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/e937a1de802a417f869c3e6e0faad244
Publikováno v:
Emerging Microbes and Infections, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018)
Abstract Avian influenza H5N1 subtype has caused a global public health concern due to its high pathogenicity in poultry and high case fatality rates in humans. The recently emerged H7N9 is a growing pandemic risk due to its sustained high rates of h
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/5afc060f7e3f4f5eb5791d8518f36f9a
Autor:
Zhanwei Du, Huaping Hong, Shuqi Wang, Lijia Ma, Caifen Liu, Yuan Bai, Dillon C. Adam, Linwei Tian, Lin Wang, Eric H. Y. Lau, Benjamin J. Cowling
Publikováno v:
Viruses, Vol 14, Iss 4, p 821 (2022)
COVID-19 remains a persistent threat, especially with the predominant Omicron variant emerging in early 2022, presenting with high transmissibility, immune escape, and waning. There is a need to rapidly ramp up global vaccine coverage while enhancing
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/50a8696fda7f4a88821742296dd58645
Publikováno v:
Viruses, Vol 11, Iss 9, p 791 (2019)
The clinical severity and observed case fatality ratio of influenza A/H1N1pdm09 in India, particularly in 2015 and 2017 far exceeds current global estimates. Reasons for these frequent and severe epidemic waves remain unclear. We used Bayesian phylod
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/794a4a6c604e449ba99287e381aca8c6
Accounting for the Potential of Overdispersion in Estimation of the Time-varying Reproduction Number
Publikováno v:
Epidemiology. 34:201-205
Autor:
Benjamin R Young, Bingyi Yang, Peng Wu, Dillon C Adam, Jessica Y Wong, Faith Ho, Huizhi Gao, Eric H Y Lau, Gabriel M Leung, Benjamin J Cowling
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
We described the frequency of residential case clusters and the efficiency of compulsory testing in identifying cases using buildings targeted in compulsory testing and locally infected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases matched by residence i
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 110, Iss, Pp 69-74 (2021)
Objectives: Rhinoviruses (RV) represent the most common aetiological agent of all acute respiratory tract infections across all age groups and a significant burden of disease among children. Recent studies have shown that RV-A and RV-C species are as