Publications

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Selected Publications

• Wastewater surveillance unveils the impact of mass gatherings on antimicrobial resistance after the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia.
  Changzhi Wang, Yevhen Myshkevych, Tiannyu Wang, Mohammad K Monjed, Pei-Ying Hong.
  Nature Water, 2025. [IF: 24.1]

• Monitoring cross-border dissemination of antimicrobial resistome (AMR) via air travel to Saudi Arabia: Formulation of monitoring strategies to mitigate AMR concerns.
  Changzhi Wang, Shaman Narayanasamy, Manal Shaabad, Ashraf Dallol, Sharif Hala, Pei-Ying Hong.
  Environmental Science and Technology, 2025. [IF: 11.3]

• Investigation of antibiotic resistome in hospital wastewater during the COVID-19 pandemic: is the initial phase of the pandemic contributing to antimicrobial resistance?
  Changzhi Wang, David Mantilla-Calderon, Yanghui Xiong, Mohsen Alkahtani, Yasir M Bashawri, Hamed Al Qarni, Pei-Ying Hong.
  Environmental Science and Technology, 56: 21, 15007-15018, 2022. [IF: 11.3]

• Genome-resolved metagenomics and antibiotic resistance genes analysis in reclaimed water distribution systems.
  Changzhi Wang, Pei-Ying Hong.
  Water, 12(21), 2020. [IF: 3.3]

Publications

• Extracellular DNA-associated dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in anaerobic versus aerobic membrane bioreactor.
  Shuo Zhang, Bothayna Al-Gashgari, Julie Sanchez Medina, Changzhi Wang, Shaman Narayanasamy, Yanghui Xiong, Kesen Wang, Pei-Ying Hong.
  Bioresource Technology, 2025.

• Metagenomic Insights in Antimicrobial Resistance Threats in Sludge from Aerobic and Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors.
  Julie Sanchez Medina, Shuo Zhang, Shaman Narayanasamy, Changzhi Wang, Bothayna Al-Gashgari, Pei-Ying Hong.
  Environmental Science and Technology, 2025.

• Global occurrence of organic micropollutants in surface and ground water: Highlighting the importance of wastewater sanitation to tackle organic micropollutants.
  Claudia Sanchez-Huerta, Fras Baasher, Changzhi Wang, Shuo Zhang, Pei-Ying Hong.
  Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 12:3, 1122861, 2024.

• Understanding the role of sorption and biodegradation in the removal of organic micropollutants by membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) with different biofilm thickness.
  Claudia Sanchez-Huerta, Julie Sanchez Medina, Changzhi Wang, Luca Fortunato, Pei-Ying Hong.
  Water Research, 236, 119935, 2023.

• Decreasing hydraulic retention time of anaerobic membrane bioreactor: Effect on core genera and microbial contaminants removal.
  Julie Sanchez Medina, Shuo Zhang, Changzhi Wang, Jianqiang Zhou, Pei-Ying Hong.
  Bioresource Technology Reports, 22, 101389, 2023.

• SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology in an enclosed compound: A 2.5-year survey to identify factors contributing to local community dissemination.
  Tiannyu Wang, Changzhi Wang, Yevhen Myshkevych, David Mantilla-Calderon, Erik Talley, Pei-Ying Hong.
  Science of The Total Environment, 6: 162466, 2023.

• Metagenomics as a Tool To Monitor Reclaimed-Water Quality.
  Pei-Ying Hong, David Mantilla-Calderon, Changzhi Wang.
  Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86:e00724-20, 2020.

• Active-Site Conformational Fluctuations Promote the Enzymatic Activity of NDM-1.
  Hongmin Zhang, Guixing Ma, Yifan Zhu, Lingxiao Zeng, Ashfaq Ahmad, Changzhi Wang, Bo Pang, Huiyan Fang, Liqing Zhao, Quan Hao.
  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 62: 10.1128, 2018.