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Overview

Congming Wu is affiliated with China Agricultural University in China and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans a range of subfields, notably molecular medicine, infectious diseases, pollution, molecular biology, and endocrinology.

Their research primarily focuses on topics related to antibiotic resistance in bacteria, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, and antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus. Additional areas of study include bacteriophages and microbial interactions, antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy, as well as specific bacterial research such as Escherichia coli and Vibrio bacteria.

Wu has authored publications in several respected scientific journals with repeated contributions to:

  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Antibiotics
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • One Health Advances
  • Emerging Microbes & Infections

Some of the recent significant papers by Wu include:

  • Changes in colistin resistance and mcr-1 abundance in Escherichia coli of animal and human origins following the ban of colistin-positive additives in China: an epidemiological comparative study, 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Mobile Oxazolidinone Resistance Genes in Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria, 2021, Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • Distinct increase in antimicrobial resistance genes among Escherichia coli during 50 years of antimicrobial use in livestock production in China, 2022, Nature Food
  • Farm animals and aquaculture: significant reservoirs of mobile colistin resistance genes, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • Contaminated in-house environment contributes to the persistence and transmission of NDM-producing bacteria in a Chinese poultry farm, 2020, Environment International

Wu's frequent collaborators include:

  • Yang Wang
  • Jianzhong Shen
  • Štefan Schwarz
  • Chengtao Sun
  • Timothy R. Walsh

Best Publications

  • A novel gene, optrA, that confers transferable resistance to oxazolidinones and phenicols and its presence in Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium of human and animal origin

    Yang Wang;Yuan Lv;Jiachang Cai;Stefan Schwarz

  • Emergence of plasmid-mediated high-level tigecycline resistance genes in animals and humans

    Tao He;Ran Wang;Dejun Liu;Timothy R. Walsh;Timothy R. Walsh

  • Comprehensive resistome analysis reveals the prevalence of NDM and MCR-1 in Chinese poultry production.

    Yang Wang;Rongmin Zhang;Jiyun Li;Zuowei Wu

  • Prevalence, risk factors, outcomes, and molecular epidemiology of mcr-1-positive Enterobacteriaceae in patients and healthy adults from China: an epidemiological and clinical study

    Yang Wang;Guo-Bao Tian;Rong Zhang;Yingbo Shen

  • Changes in colistin resistance and mcr-1 abundance in Escherichia coli of animal and human origins following the ban of colistin-positive additives in China: an epidemiological comparative study

    Yang Wang;Chunyan Xu;Rong Zhang;Yiqiang Chen

  • Early emergence of mcr-1 in Escherichia coli from food-producing animals

    Zhangqi Shen;Yang Wang;Yingbo Shen;Jianzhong Shen

  • Prevalence and characterization of Salmonella species isolated from pigs, ducks and chickens in Sichuan Province, China.

    Ruichao Li;Jing Lai;Yang Wang;Shuliang Liu

  • Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter isolates in broilers from China

    Xia Chen;Gao-Wa Naren;Cong-Ming Wu;Yang Wang

  • Genetic environment of the transferable oxazolidinone/phenicol resistance gene optrA in Enterococcus faecalis isolates of human and animal origin

    Tao He;Yingbo Shen;Stefan Schwarz;Jiachang Cai

  • Prevalence and Dissemination of oqxAB in Escherichia coli Isolates from Animals, Farmworkers, and the Environment

    Jingjing Zhao;Zhangliu Chen;Sheng Chen;Yuting Deng

  • Mobile Oxazolidinone Resistance Genes in Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria.

    Stefan Schwarz;Stefan Schwarz;Wanjiang Zhang;Xiang-Dang Du;Henrike Krüger

  • Anthropogenic and environmental factors associated with high incidence of mcr-1 carriage in humans across China

    Yingbo Shen;Hongwei Zhou;Jiao Xu;Yongqiang Wang

  • Identification of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase 1 in Acinetobacter lwoffii of food animal origin.

    Yang Wang;Congming Wu;Qijing Zhang;Jing Qi

  • Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Campylobacter Species Isolates with a Horizontally Acquired rRNA Methylase

    Yang Wang;Maojun Zhang;Fengru Deng;Zhangqi Shen

  • First report of the multidrug resistance gene cfr in Enterococcus faecalis of animal origin.

    Yang Liu;Yang Wang;Comgming Wu;Zhangqui Shen

  • Distinct increase in antimicrobial resistance genes among Escherichia coli during 50 years of antimicrobial use in livestock production in China

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  • Report of ribosomal RNA methylase gene erm(B) in multidrug-resistant Campylobacter coli

    Shangshang Qin;Yang Wang;Qijing Zhang;Maojun Zhang

  • Co-location of the oxazolidinone resistance genes optrA and cfr on a multiresistance plasmid from Staphylococcus sciuri

    Dexi Li;Yang Wang;Stefan Schwarz;Jiachang Cai

  • Emergence of a Potent Multidrug Efflux Pump Variant That Enhances Campylobacter Resistance to Multiple Antibiotics

    Hong Yao;Zhangqi Shen;Yang Wang;Fengru Deng;Fengru Deng

  • Rapid rise of the ESBL and mcr-1 genes in Escherichia coli of chicken origin in China, 2008-2014.

    Congming Wu;Yingchao Wang;Xiaomin Shi;Shuang Wang

  • Increasing prevalence of extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli in food animals and the diversity of CTX-M genotypes during 2003-2012

    Lili Rao;Luchao Lv;Zhenling Zeng;Sheng Chen

  • Identification of a novel genomic island conferring resistance to multiple aminoglycoside antibiotics in Campylobacter coli.

    Shangshang Qin;Yang Wang;Qijing Zhang;Xia Chen;Xia Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Yang Wang
Yang Wang China Agricultural University
Zhangqi Shen
Zhangqi Shen China Agricultural University
Qijing Zhang
Qijing Zhang Iowa State University
Shaolin Wang
Shaolin Wang China Agricultural University
Timothy R. Walsh
Timothy R. Walsh University of Oxford
Yongning Wu
Yongning Wu Center for Food Safety
Sheng Chen
Sheng Chen University of Southampton
Kristina Kadlec
Kristina Kadlec Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Qiang Sun
Qiang Sun Peking University
Kathryn E. Holt
Kathryn E. Holt London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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