Microbes are tiny, and inviable in our naked eyes, yet they are everywhere. Microbes are providing ecosystem services for food production, environmental protection and human health. Some microbes, under certain conditions can also cause damages to humans, animals and plants, these are called pathogens.
An international group of scientists led by Prof Yong-Guan Zhu, from the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences recently published a perspective in Science (15 Sep...
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Global emergence of antimicrobial resistance threatens the therapies of bacterial pathogen infections. Professor ZHU Yongguan from Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences and his international collaborators, have conducted a nation-wide survey of antimicrobial resistance elements in urban sewage and depicted that the distribution of antimicrobial resistant genes was characterized by the well-known “Hu Huanyong line”, which delineates a striking difference in the dis...
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