The impact of clade B lineage 5 MERS coronaviruses spike mutations from 2015 to 2023 on virus entry and replication competence

• Ray T. Y. So,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9576-4489

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• Kenrie P. Y. Hui,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliations School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Centre for Immunology & Infection, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong SAR, China

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• John C. W. Ho,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Centre for Immunology & Infection, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong SAR, China

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• Kaman K. M. Lau,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

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• Ziqi Zhou,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Centre of Immunobiology and Infection, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Michael C. W. Chan,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Centre for Immunology & Infection, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong SAR, China

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• Leo L. M. Poon,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Centre for Immunology & Infection, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong SAR, China, HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

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• Malik Peiris

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: malik@hku.hk

  Affiliations School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Centre for Immunology & Infection, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong SAR, China, HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8217-5995

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