Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection results in rapid T lymphocytopenia and functional impairment of T cells. The un...Read more

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is unlikely to abate until sufficient herd immunity is built up by either natural infection or vaccin...Read more

Introduction: An increasing number of children with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is being reported, yet the spectrum of disease severity...Read more

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a wide spectrum of disease severity from mild upper respiratory symptoms to respiratory failure. The role of n...Read more

Researchers at the AIDS Institute, Department of Microbiology, and State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases at HKUMed, in collaboration wi...Read more

Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) have enhanced transmissibility and immune evasion with respect to current vaccines and neutralizing...Read more

Background Vaccines in emergency use are efficacious against COVID-19, yet vaccine-induced prevention against nasal SARS-CoV-2 infection remains subo...Read more

© 2021 Elsevier Inc. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is characterized by a burst in the upper respiratory portal for high...Read more

Researchers at the AIDS Institute, HKUMed, investigated the role of human immune responses in acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. The study found that acute S...Read more

香港大學的研究人員發現，從中藥雞血藤提取的成分可以抑制SARS-CoV-2病毒，防止其入侵細胞。該提取物有潛力製成鼻腔噴劑，作為日常的「隱形口罩」，預防COVID-19。研究結果已刊登於《Phytotherapy Research》。...

SARS-CoV-2 is of zoonotic origin and contains a PRRA polybasic cleavage motif which is considered critical for efficient infection and transmission in...Read more

The current COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-Cov-2 is responsible for more than 6 million deaths globally. The development of broad-spectrum and cost-...Read more

The development of a safe and effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of pandemic coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), is a global p...Read more

Researchers at HKUMed have conducted a study to identify an effective vaccine regimen to prevent SARS-CoV-2 nasal infection. The study found that a co...Read more

A research team from the University of Hong Kong has discovered a natural product called SSP derived from the Chinese herb Spatholobus Suberectus Dunn...Read more

Neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) to SARS-CoV-2 hold powerful potentials for clinical interventions against COVID-19 disease. However, their common genet...Read more

Background: Patients with COVID-19 display a broad spectrum of manifestations from asymptomatic to life-threatening disease with dysregulated immune r...Read more

Background: Children and older adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) display a distinct spectrum of disease severity yet the risk factors ar...Read more

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has resulted in millions of infections, yet the role of host immune responses in early COVID-19 pathogenesis remains unclear. ...Read more