Our study (NCT04800133) aimed to determine the safety and immunogenicity in patients with IEIs receiving a 3-dose primary series of mRNA vaccine BNT16...Read more

In this article, the affiliation ‘HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China’ for Carolyn A. Co...Read more

To our best knowledge, this article presents a novel data set on Hong Kong's adolescents' attitude towards the COVID-19 vaccination, excluding their p...Read more

Background: Children with special educational needs (SEN) are more vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic with risk of poor mental wellbeing and chil...Read more

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Accurate detection of SARS‐C...Read more

Myocarditis has been recognized as a complication of COVID-19 mRNA vaccinations, particularlyin adolescent and young adult male patients.1 Cardiovascu...Read more

X-linked lymphoproliferative disease (XLP1) is an inborn error of immunity (IEI) with severe immune dysregulation caused by a mutation in the  SH2D1A ...Read more

For SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, efficacy data for BNT162b2 but not CoronaVac are available in adolescents. Phase II/III studies focused on neutralizing antib...Read more

Background:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound impact on the health and development of children worldwide. There is ...Read more

The Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and School of Public Health at HKUMed are now launching the COVID-19 Vaccination in Adolescents ...Read more

Researchers from the COVID Human Genetic Effort, including HKUMed, have discovered inborn errors of immunity and auto-antibodies affecting type I inte...Read more

A research team from HKUMed found that home is the primary route of COVID-19 transmission among Hong Kong children and adolescents. The study surveyed...Read more

Background: Pediatric COVID-19 studies exploring the relationships between NPS and saliva viral loads, clinical and immunological profiles are lacking...Read more

Myocarditis and Pericarditis have many virological and immunological causes. This article described the SARS-CoV involvement to the heart in children ...Read more

The novel SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant may increase the risk of re-infection and vaccine breakthrough infections as it possesses key mutations in the sp...Read more

Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant BA.2 sublineage has increased rapidly in Europe and Asia ...Read more