Publications

the middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (mers-cov) and singapore.		2013	24045372
respiratory precautions for mers-cov: acceptable risk-benefit determination.		2014	25017401
debate on mers-cov respiratory precautions: surgical mask or n95 respirators?	since the emergence of middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (mers-cov) in mid-2012, there has been controversy over the respiratory precaution recommendations in different guidelines from various international bodies. our understanding of mers-cov is still evolving. current recommendations on infection control practices are heavily influenced by the lessons learnt from severe acute respiratory syndrome. a debate on respiratory precautions for mers-cov was organised by infection control a ...	2014	25017402
assessment of the risk posed to singapore by the 2015 middle east respiratory syndrome outbreak in the republic of korea.	to assess the public health risk to singapore posed by the middle east respiratory syndrome (mers) outbreak in the republic of korea in 2015.	2017	27508087
identification of a lineage d betacoronavirus in cave nectar bats (eonycteris spelaea) in singapore and an overview of lineage d reservoir ecology in se asian bats.	coronaviruses are a diverse group of viruses that infect mammals and birds. bats are reservoirs for several different coronaviruses in the alphacoronavirus and betacoronavirus genera. they also appear to be the natural reservoir for the ancestral viruses that generated the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreaks. here, we detected coronavirus sequences in next-generation sequence data created from eonycteris spelaea faeces and urin ...	2016	27637887
risk assessment and laboratory investigation of respiratory illness in travellers returning to singapore 2012-2015: experience from the mers-cov surveillance programme.	since the emergence of middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (mers-cov), singapore has enhanced its national surveillance system to detect the potential importation of this novel pathogen. using the guidelines from the singapore ministry of health, a suspect case was defined as a person with clinical signs and symptoms suggestive of pneumonia or severe respiratory infection with breathlessness, and with an epidemiological link to countries where mers-cov cases had been reported within the ...	2017	27780489