Congming Wu, DVM, PhD

Education

• 09/2000-06/2003, PhD in Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, South China Agricultural University

• 09/1992-06/1995, MS in Veterinary parasitology, Sichuan Agricultural University

• 09/1996-07/2000, DVM, Sichuan Agricultural University

Training and Professional Experience

• 2011-now, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University

• 2006-2010, Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University

• 2005-2006, Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University

• 2003-2005, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University

• 1995-2000, Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture, Guangdong Ocean University

Research Interests

• Antimicrobial Resistance of Bacteria in Food Animals; Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Antimicrobial Agents for Animals; R&D of New Veterinary Drugs.

Awards and Honors

• 2019-now, Vice President of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology Branch, Chinese Society of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine

• 2016-now, Member of National Veterinary Drug Residue and Antimicrobial Resistance Control Expert Committee, China

Teaching

• 2016-now, Undergraduate course "Veterinary Pharmacology"

• 2015-now, Graduate level course "Veterinary Antimicrobial Agents Veterinary Seminar"

• 2015-now, Graduate level course "Advances in Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology"

Reviewer for

• Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

• Microbiology China

• Chinese Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Ji X, Krüger H, Tao J, Wang Y, Feßler AT, Bai R, Wang S, Dong Y, Shen J, Wang Y, Schwarz S, Wu C*. 2021. Comparative analysis of genomic characteristics, fitness and virulence of MRSA ST398 and ST9 isolated from China and Germany. Emerg Microbes Infec 10:1481–1494.

• Jiang N, Wyres KL, Li J, Feßler AT, Krüger H, Wang Y, Holt KE, Schwarz S, Wu C*. 2021. Evolution and genomic insight into methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST9 in China. J Antimicrob Chemother 76: 1703–1711.

• Zhai R, Fu B, Shi X, Sun C, Liu Z, Wang S, Shen Z, Walsh TR, Cai C, Wang Y, Wu C*. 2020. Contaminated in-house environment contributes to the persistence and transmission of NDM-producing bacteria in a Chinese poultry farm. Environ Int 139:105715.

• Sun C, Cui M, Zhang S, Liu D, Fu B, Li Z, Bai R, Wang Y, Wang H, Song L, Zhang C, Zhao Q, Shen J, Xu S, Wu C*, Wang Y. 2020. Genomic epidemiology of animal-derived tigecycline-resistant Escherichia coli across China reveals recent endemic plasmid-encoded tet(X4) gene. Commun Biol 3:412.

• Sun C, Wang Y, Ma S, Zhang S, Liu D, Wang Y, Wu C*. 2020. Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli and enterococci from food products at retail in Beijing, China. Food Control 107483.

• Sun C, Cui M, Zhang S, Wang H, Song L, Zhang C, Zhao Q, Liu D, Wang Y, Shen J, Xu S, Wu C*. 2019. Plasmid-mediated tigecycline-resistant gene tet(X4) in Escherichia coli from food-producing animals, China, 2008–2018. Emerg Microbes Infec 8:1524–1527.

• Li J, Hulth A, Nilsson LE, Börjesson S, Chen B, Bi Z, Wang Y, Schwarz S, Wu C*. 2018. Occurrence of the mobile colistin resistance gene mcr-3 in Escherichia coli from household pigs in rural areas. J Antimicrob Chemother 73:1721–1723.

• Sun C, Zhang P, Ji X, Fan R, Chen B, Wang Y, Schwarz S, Wu C*. 2018. Presence and molecular characteristics of oxazolidinone resistance in staphylococci from household animals in rural China. J Antimicrob Chemother 73:1194–1200.

• Li J, Jiang N, Ke Y, Feßler AT, Wang Y, Schwarz S, Wu C*. 2017. Characterization of pig-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Vet Microbiol 201:183–187.

• Shen Z, Wang Y, Shen Y, Shen J, Wu C*. 2016. Early emergence of mcr-1 in Escherichia coli from food-producing animals. Lancet Infect Dis 16:293.