Summary Background Hong Kong contained COVID-19 for two years but experienced a large epidemic of Omicron BA. 2 in early 2022 and endemic transmission of Omicron …
Viral and host factors can shape SARS-CoV-2 evolution. However, little is known about lineage-specific and vaccination-specific mutations that occur within individuals. Here, we …
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 …
Many locations around the world have used real-time estimates of the time-varying effective reproductive number (R t) of COVID-19 to provide evidence of transmission intensity to …
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a variety of diagnostic approaches, including RT- qPCR, RAPID, and LFA, have been adopted, with RT-qPCR emerging as the gold standard …
Phylodynamics is central to understanding infectious disease dynamics through the integration of genomic and epidemiological data. Despite advancements, including the …
The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the urgency for rapid public health surveillance methods to detect and monitor the transmission of infectious diseases. The wastewater …
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious condition caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which surfaced in Thailand in early …
The emergence of highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants has led to surges in cases and the need for global genomic surveillance. While some variants rapidly spread worldwide …