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Weizhong Yang
Researcher at Peking Union Medical College
Publications - 166
Citations - 13067
Weizhong Yang is an academic researcher from Peking Union Medical College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Influenza A virus & Outbreak. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 158 publications receiving 11744 citations. Previous affiliations of Weizhong Yang include Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Human Infection with a Novel Avian-Origin Influenza A (H7N9) Virus
Rongbao Gao,Bin Cao,Yunwen Hu,Zijian Feng,Dayan Wang,Wanfu Hu,Jian Chen,Zhijun Jie,Haibo Qiu,Ke Xu,Xuewei Xu,Hongzhou Lu,Wenfei Zhu,Zhancheng Gao,Nijuan Xiang,Yinzhong Shen,Zebao He,Y. Gu,Zhiyong Zhang,Yi Yang,Xiang Zhao,Lei Zhou,Xiaodan Li,Shumei Zou,Ye Zhang,Xiyan Li,Lei Yang,Junfeng Guo,Jie Dong,Qun Li,Libo Dong,Yun Zhu,Tian Bai,Shiwen Wang,Pei Hao,Weizhong Yang,Yanping Zhang,Jun Han,Hongjie Yu,Dexin Li,George F. Gao,Guizhen Wu,Yu Wang,Zhenghong Yuan,Yuelong Shu +44 more
TL;DR: Novel reassortant H7N9 viruses were associated with severe and fatal respiratory disease in three patients, and all three patients died.
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Epidemiological serosurvey of hepatitis B in China--declining HBV prevalence due to hepatitis B vaccination.
Xiaofeng Liang,Shengli Bi,Weizhong Yang,Longde Wang,Gang Cui,Fuqiang Cui,Yong Zhang,Jianhua Liu,Xiaohong Gong,Yuansheng Chen,Fuzhen Wang,Hui Zheng,Feng Wang,Jing Guo,Zhiyuan Jia,Jing-Chen Ma,Huaqing Wang,Huiming Luo,Liang Li,Shuigao Jin,Stephen C. Hadler,Yu Wang +21 more
TL;DR: China has already reached the national goal of reducing HBsAg prevalence to less than 1% among children under 5 years and has prevented an estimated 16-20 million HBV carriers through hepatitis B vaccination of infants and immunization program should be further strengthened to reach those remaining at highest risk.
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Epidemiology of Human Infections with Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus in China
Qun Li,Lei Zhou,Minghao Zhou,Zhiping Chen,Furong Li,Huanyu Wu,Nijuan Xiang,Enfu Chen,Fenyang Tang,Dayan Wang,Ling Meng,Zhiheng Hong,Wenxiao Tu,Yang Cao,Leilei Li,Fan Ding,Bo Liu,Mei Wang,Rongheng Xie,Rongbao Gao,Xiaodan Li,Tian Bai,Shumei Zou,Jun He,Jiayu Hu,Yangting Xu,Chengliang Chai,Shiwen Wang,Yongjun Gao,Lianmei Jin,Yanping Zhang,Huiming Luo,Hongjie Yu,Jianfeng He,Qi Li,Xianjun Wang,Lidong Gao,Xinghuo Pang,Guohua Liu,Yansheng Yan,Hui Yuan,Yuelong Shu,Weizhong Yang,Yu Wang,Fan Wu,Timothy M. Uyeki,Zijian Feng +46 more
TL;DR: Most persons with confirmed H7N9 virus infection had severe lower respiratory tract illness, were epidemiologically unrelated, and had a history of recent exposure to poultry.
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Origin and diversity of novel avian influenza A H7N9 viruses causing human infection: phylogenetic, structural, and coalescent analyses
Di Liu,Weifeng Shi,Yi Shi,Dayan Wang,Haixia Xiao,Wei Li,Yuhai Bi,Ying Wu,Xianbin Li,Jinghua Yan,Wenjun Liu,Guoping Zhao,Weizhong Yang,Yu Wang,Juncai Ma,Yuelong Shu,Fumin Lei,George F. Gao +17 more
TL;DR: Genotypic and potential phenotypic differences imply that the isolates causing this outbreak form two separate subclades, and diversity among isolates implies that the H7N9 virus has evolved into at least two different lineages.
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Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of a fatal case of avian influenza A H10N8 virus infection: a descriptive study
Haiying Chen,Hui Yuan,Rongbao Gao,Jinxiang Zhang,Dayan Wang,Ying Xiong,Guoyin Fan,Fan Yang,Xiaodan Li,Jianfang Zhou,Shumei Zou,Lei Yang,Tao Chen,Libo Dong,Hong Bo,Xiang Zhao,Ye Zhang,Yu Lan,Tian Bai,Jie Dong,Qun Li,Shiwen Wang,Yanping Zhang,Hui Li,Tian Gong,Yong Shi,Xiansheng Ni,Jianxiong Li,Jun Zhou,Jiyi Fan,Jingwen Wu,Xianfeng Zhou,Maohong Hu,Jianguo Wan,Weizhong Yang,Dexin Li,Guizhen Wu,Zijian Feng,George F. Gao,Yu Wang,Qi Jin,Mingbin Liu,Yuelong Shu +42 more
TL;DR: The first human infection with a novel reassortant avian influenza A H10N8 virus is reported, which was isolated from a patient from Nanchang City, China and caused human infection and could have been associated with the death of a patient.