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| B S F TangSummaryAffiliation: Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital Country: Hong Kong Publications
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Comparative host gene transcription by microarray analysis early after infection of the Huh7 cell line by SARS coronavirus and human coronavirus 229EB S F Tang
Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital Compound, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China
Hong Kong Med J 15:23-6. 2009..During the early stages of infection, SARS-CoV produces more severe perturbation of host cell gene expression in a human epithelial cell line of liver origin than the HCoV-229E...- Viral replication in the nasopharynx is associated with diarrhea in patients with severe acute respiratory syndromeV C C Cheng
Centre of Infection, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
Clin Infect Dis 38:467-75. 2004..The lung and the gastrointestinal tract may react differently to SARS coronavirus infection. Additional investigation of the role of SARS coronavirus in the pathogenesis of diarrhea in patients with SARS should be conducted... - Fatal interaction between clarithromycin and colchicine in patients with renal insufficiency: a retrospective studyI F N Hung
Research Center of Infection and Immunology, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Clin Infect Dis 41:291-300. 2005..Since there are other drugs for treatment of pneumonia and gout, these 2 drugs should not be coprescribed, because of the risk of fatality... - Q fever: underdiagnosed in Hong Kong?J F W Chan
Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Med J 16:56-8. 2010.... - Medical treatment of viral pneumonia including SARS in immunocompetent adultV C C Cheng
Centre of Infection, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
J Infect 49:262-73. 2004..Randomized therapeutic trial should be conducted to ascertain the relative usefulness of antiviral alone or in combination with steroid... 
Antimicrobial stewardship program directed at broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotics prescription in a tertiary hospitalV C C Cheng
Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hongkong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 28:1447-56. 2009..8%. Antibiotics consumption reduced from 73.06 (baseline, year 2004) to 64.01 (year 2007) per 1,000 patient bed-day-occupancy. Our model can be easily applied even in the clinical setting of limited resources...- Clinical progression and viral load in a community outbreak of coronavirus-associated SARS pneumonia: a prospective studyJ S M Peiris
Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, China
Lancet 361:1767-72. 2003.... - Lymphocyte surge as a marker for immunorestitution disease due to Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in HIV-negative immunosuppressed hostsV C C Cheng
Division of Infectious Diseases, Centre of Infection, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, China
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 23:512-4. 2004 - Effect of antibiotics on the bacterial load of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonisation in anterior naresV C C Cheng
Department of Microbiology, Research Centre of Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
J Hosp Infect 70:27-34. 2008..79; 0.67-0.93; P=0.002). Patients on beta-lactam or fluoroquinolone therapy have increased incidence of MRSA colonisation and higher nasal bacterial loads, and appear to spread their MRSA into the near patient environment...