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China
2026

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Microbiology

D-Index
114
Citations
41364
World Ranking
209
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in China Leader Award

Overview

Tong Zhang is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China and has focused research efforts primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Pollution, Ecology, Infectious Diseases, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal

Tong Zhang has published in several frequent venues, including:

  • Water Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microbiome
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Tong Zhang are:

  • "An omics-based framework for assessing the health risk of antimicrobial resistance genes," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "MiDAS 4: A global catalogue of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and taxonomy for studies of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Conjugative plasmids interact with insertion sequences to shape the horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "ARGs-OAP v3.0: Antibiotic-Resistance Gene Database Curation and Analysis Pipeline Optimization," 2022, Engineering
  • "Source tracking of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment - Challenges, progress, and prospects," 2020, Water Research

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Xiaole Yin
  • Yulin Wang
  • Xiaoqing Xu
  • Xiawan Zheng
  • Chunxiao Wang

Best Publications

  • 454 pyrosequencing reveals bacterial diversity of activated sludge from 14 sewage treatment plants.

    Tong Zhang;Ming Fei Shao;Lin Ye

  • Metagenomic and network analysis reveal wide distribution and co-occurrence of environmental antibiotic resistance genes.

    Bing Li;Ying Yang;Liping Ma;Feng Ju

  • Antibiotic resistance genes in water environment.

    Xu-Xiang Zhang;Xu-Xiang Zhang;Tong Zhang;Herbert H. P. Fang

  • Continental-scale pollution of estuaries with antibiotic resistance genes

    Yong-Guan Zhu;Yi Zhao;Bing Li;Chu-Long Huang

  • Biodegradation and Adsorption of Antibiotics in the Activated Sludge Process

    Bing Li;Tong Zhang

  • Management Options for Reducing the Release of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes to the Environment

    Amy Pruden;D.G. Joakim Larsson;Alejandro Amézquita;Peter Collignon

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • An omics-based framework for assessing the health risk of antimicrobial resistance genes

    An-Ni Zhang;An-Ni Zhang;Jeffry M. Gaston;Chengzhen L. Dai;Shijie Zhao

  • ARGs-OAP v2.0 with an expanded SARG database and Hidden Markov Models for enhancement characterization and quantification of antibiotic resistance genes in environmental metagenomes.

    Xiaole Yin;Xiao-Tao Jiang;Benli Chai;Liguan Li

  • Sulfate Radical-Mediated Degradation of Sulfadiazine by CuFeO2 Rhombohedral Crystal-Catalyzed Peroxymonosulfate: Synergistic Effects and Mechanisms

    Yong Feng;Deli Wu;Yu Deng;Tong Zhang

  • Fate of antibiotic resistance genes in sewage treatment plant revealed by metagenomic approach.

    Ying Yang;Bing Li;Shichun Zou;Herbert H.P. Fang

  • Metagenomic insights into chlorination effects on microbial antibiotic resistance in drinking water.

    Peng Shi;Shuyu Jia;Xu-Xiang Zhang;Xu-Xiang Zhang;Tong Zhang

  • Bacterial assembly and temporal dynamics in activated sludge of a full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plant.

    Feng Ju;Tong Zhang

  • Phthalates biodegradation in the environment

    Da-Wei Liang;Tong Zhang;Herbert H. P. Fang;Jianzhong He

  • Co-occurrence of antibiotic and metal resistance genes revealed in complete genome collection.

    Li-Guan Li;Yu Xia;Tong Zhang

  • Bacterial Community Shift Drives Antibiotic Resistance Promotion during Drinking Water Chlorination.

    Shuyu Jia;Peng Shi;Qing Hu;Bing Li

  • Plasmid Metagenome Reveals High Levels of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Mobile Genetic Elements in Activated Sludge

    Tong Zhang;Xu-Xiang Zhang;Lin Ye

  • Wastewater treatment plant resistomes are shaped by bacterial composition, genetic exchange, and upregulated expression in the effluent microbiomes

    Feng Ju;Karin Beck;Xiaole Yin;Andreas Maccagnan

  • Biohydrogen production from starch in wastewater under thermophilic condition

    Tong Zhang;Hong Liu;Herbert H.P. Fang

  • Sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrification: diversity, biochemistry, and engineering applications

    Ming-Fei Shao;Tong Zhang;Herbert Han-Ping Fang

  • Optimization of fixation methods for observation of bacterial cell morphology and surface ultrastructures by atomic force microscopy

    Yuanqing Chao;Tong Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert H. P. Fang
Herbert H. P. Fang University of Hong Kong
Xu-Xiang Zhang
Xu-Xiang Zhang Nanjing University
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Yong-Guan Zhu
Yong-Guan Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Edward Topp
Edward Topp Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Amy Pruden
Amy Pruden Virginia Tech
Xiao-yan Li
Xiao-yan Li University of Hong Kong
Kaimin Shih
Kaimin Shih University of Hong Kong
Xiangdong Li
Xiangdong Li Hong Kong Polytechnic University
William H. Gaze
William H. Gaze University of Exeter

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