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Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine

Research Focus & Interests

Food safety; antibiotic resistance; bacterial pathogenesis; pathogen-host interactions; prevention and control of infectious diseases.

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Research Focus & Interests

Food safety; antibiotic resistance; bacterial pathogenesis; pathogen-host interactions; prevention and control of infectious diseases.

Present	Associate Dean, Iowa State University ‐ Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventative Medicine
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Peer-Reviewed Articles (94)

The pathology of natural and experimentally induced Campylobacter jejuni abortion ...

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation (2021)

Michael J. Yaeger, Orhan Sahin, Paul J. Plummer, Zuowei Wu, et al.

We describe here the gross and microscopic lesions in 18 experimentally induced and 120 natural Campylobacter abortions. In natural Campylobacter ...

Distribution of CRISPR Types in Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Campylobacter jejuni Isolates

Pathogens (2021)

Mehmet Cemal Adiguzel, Debora Brito Goulart, Zuowei Wu, Jinji Pang, et al.

To aid development of phage therapy against Campylobacter, we investigated the distribution of the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats ...

Complete Genome Sequence of Campylobacter hepaticus USA52, Associated with Chicken ...

Microbiology Resource Announcements (2021)

Zuowei Wu, Orhan Sahin and Qijing Zhang

Campylobacter hepaticus was recently identified as the etiological agent of chicken spotty liver disease. Here, we report the complete genome ...

A Homologous Bacterin Protects Sheep against Abortion Induced by a ...

Vaccines (2020)

Zuowei Wu, Michael J. Yaeger, Orhan Sahin, Changyun Xu, et al.

Campylobacter jejuni clone SA has emerged as the predominant cause of ovine abortion outbreaks in the United States (US). Despite ...

Core Genome Multilocus Sequence Typing for Food Animal Source Attribution ...

Pathogens (2020)

Chih-Hao Hsu, Lucas Harrison, Sampa Mukherjee, Errol Strain, et al.

Campylobacter jejuni is a major foodborne pathogen and common cause of bacterial enteritis worldwide. A total of 622 C. jejuni ...

(-)-α-Pinene reduces quorum sensing and Campylobacter jejuni colonization in broiler ...

PLoS ONE (2020)

Katarina Šimunović, Orhan Sahin, Jasna Kovač, Zhangqi Shen, et al.

Campylobacter jejuni is one of the most prevalent causes of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide, and it is largely associated with consumption ...

Small non-coding RNA CjNC110 influences motility, autoagglutination, AI-2 localization, and ...

Amanda J. Kreuder, Brandon Ruddell, Kathy Mou, Alan Hassall, et al.

Small non-coding RNAs are involved in many important physiological functions in pathogenic microorganisms. Previous studies have identified the presence of ...

The Anti-Campylobacter Activity and Mechanisms of Pinocembrin Action

Microorganisms (2019)

Anja Klančnik, Katarina Šimunović, Jasna Kovac, Orhan Sahin, et al.

We investigated the anti-Campylobacter activity of pinocembrin and its mechanism of action, as well as Campylobacter responses to pinocembrin treatment ...

The Rho-independent transcription terminator for the porA gene enhances expression ...

Infection and Immunity (2019)

Lei Dai, Zuowei Wu, Changyun Xu, Orhan Sahin, et al.

Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of foodborne illnesses worldwide. Its porA gene encodes the major outer membrane protein (MOMP) ...

Identification of a nth-Like Gene Encoding an Endonuclease III in ...

Frontiers in Microbiology (2019)

Lei Dai, Jing Xia, Orhan Sahin and Qijing Zhang

Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of foodborne illnesses worldwide. As a microaerobic pathogen, C. jejuni is subjected to DNA ...

Intestinal colonization and acute immune response in commercial turkeys following ...

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology (2019)

Matthew J. Sylte, Timothy A. Johnson, Ella L. Meyer, Matt H. Inbody, et al.

Consumption of contaminated poultry products is one of the main sources of human campylobacteriosis, of which Campylobacter jejuni subsp. jejuni ...

High prevalence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter in sheep and increased Campylobacter ...

Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2019)

Jing Xia, Jinji Pang, Yizhi Tang, Zuowei Wu, et al.

Campylobacter is a major foodborne pathogen in humans and a significant cause of abortion in sheep. Although ruminants are increasingly ...

A Cotransformation Method To Identify a Restriction-Modification Enzyme That Reduces ...

Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2018)

Ximin Zeng, Zuowei Wu, Qijing Zhang and Jun Lin

Conjugation is an important mechanism for horizontal gene transfer in Campylobacter jejuni, the leading cause of human bacterial gastroenteritis in ...

Lack of Evidence for erm(B) Infiltration Into Erythromycin-Resistant Campylobacter ...

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease (2018)

Hannah K. Bolinger, Qijing Zhang, William G. Miller and Sophia Kathariou

In Campylobacter spp., resistance to erythromycin and other macrolides has typically implicated ribosomal mutations, especially substitutions in the 23S rRNA ...

Liquid-like thermal conduction in intercalated layered crystalline solids

Ames Laboratory Accepted Manuscripts (2018)

B. Li, H. Wang, Y. Kawakita, Q. Zhang, et al.

As a generic property, all substances transfer heat through microscopic collisions of constituent particles1. A solid conducts heat through both ...

Heterogeneous and Flexible Transmission of mcr-1 in Hospital-Associated Escherichia coli

Yingbo Shen, Zuowei Wu, Yang Wang, Rong Zhang, et al.

The recent emergence of a transferable colistin resistance mechanism, MCR-1, has gained global attention because of its threat to clinical ...

A mutator phenotype promoting the emergence of spontaneous oxidative stress-resistant ...

Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2017)

Lei Dai, Orhan Sahin, Yizhi Tang and Qijing Zhang

Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of foodborne illnesses worldwide. As a microaerophilic organism, C. jejuni must be able to ...

Key Role of Capsular Polysaccharide in the Induction of Systemic ...

Infection and Immunity (2017)

Orhan Sahin, Samantha A. Terhorst, Eric R. Burrough, Zhangqi Shen, et al.

Campylobacter jejuni is a zoonotic pathogen, and a hypervirulent clone, named clone SA, has recently emerged as the predominant cause ...

RNAseq Reveals Complex Response of Campylobacter jejuni to Ovine Bile ...

Frontiers in Microbiology (2017)

Amanda J. Kreuder, Jennifer A. Schleining, Michael Yaeger, Qijing Zhang, et al.

Colonization of the gallbladder by enteric pathogens such as Salmonella typhi, Listeria monocytogenes, and Campylobacter jejuni is thought to play ...

Efflux Pump Overexpression Contributes to Tigecycline Heteroresistance in Salmonella enterica ...

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (2017)

Yi Chen, Daxing Hu, Qijing Zhang, Xiao-Ping Liao, et al.

Bacterial heteroresistance has been identified in several combinations of bacteria and antibiotics, and it complicated the therapeutic strategies. Tigecycline is ...

Integrated Genomic and Proteomic Analyses of High-level Chloramphenicol Resistance in ...

Scientific Reports (2017)

Hui Li, Yingyu Wang, Qin Fu, Yang Wang, et al.

Campylobacter jejuni is a major zoonotic pathogen, and its resistance to antibiotics is of great concern for public health. However, ...

Wide but variable distribution of a hypervirulent Campylobacter jejuni clone ...

Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2017)

Yizhi Tang, Richard J. Meinersmann, Orhan Sahin, Zuowei Wu, et al.

Campylobacter jejuni clone SA is the major cause of sheep abortion and contributes significantly to foodborne illnesses in the United ...

Emergence of a Potent Multidrug Efflux Pump Variant That Enhances ...

Hong Yao, Zhangqi Shen, Yang Wang, Fengru Deng, et al.

Bacterial antibiotic efflux pumps are key players in antibiotic resistance. Although their role in conferring multidrug resistance is well documented, ...

Dual Repression of the Multidrug Eﬄux Pump CmeABC by CosR ...

Frontiers in Microbiology (2016)

Tara Grinnage-Pulley, Yang Mu, Lei Dai and Qijing Zhang

During transmission and intestinal colonization, Campylobacter jejuni, a major foodborne human pathogen, experiences oxidative stress. CosR, a response regulator in ...

First identification of NDM-4-producing Escherichia coli ST410 in China

Emerging Microbes & Infections (2016)

Shangshang Qin, Mengmeng Zhou, Qijing Zhang, Hengxun Tao, et al.

Dear Editor, The worldwide dissemination of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase 1 (NDM-1), an Ambler class B metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) conferring resistance to ...