Clinical Pathology
Microbiology/Virology
Medical School
Beijing Second Medical College and Graduate School of Peking Union Medical College, 1986
/ University of Alabama at Birmingham, PhD Clinical Microbiology, 1994
Site of Fellowship
Post Doctoral Fellowship, Mayo Clinic, 1997
Research Interests
Molecular diagnostics, mechanisms of bacterial antibiotic resistance
Selected Publications
 Zheng,
X., C. P. Kolbert, P. Varga-Delmore, J. Arruda, M. Lewis, J. Kolberg,
F. R. Cockerill, and D. H. Persing. 1999. Direct mecA detection from blood
culture bottles by branched DNA signal amplification. J. Clin. Microbiol. 37:4192-4193.
Zheng,
X., E. Davis, S. Singh, R. Watase, K. Hirata, and T. Reppun. 2000.
Amtimicrobial Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilius influenzae,
and Moraxella catarrhalis Isolated in Hawaii. Intl. J. Antimicrob. Agents. 15(3):
231-233.
Zheng,
X., M. Pang, H. Engler, S. Tanaka, and T. Reppun. 2001.
Rapid Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Contaminated BACTEC 12B Broth
Cultures by MTD Testing. J. Clin. Microbiol. 39:3718-3720.
Zheng,
X., C. Johnson, Y. Lu, R. Yanagihara, S. Hollingshead, M.
Crain, W. Benjamin, Jr., and K. B. Waites. 2001. Clinical isolates of Streptococcus
pneumoniae from North America resistant to levofloxacin contain mutations in
both gyrA and parC genes. Intl. J. Antimicrob. Agents. 18(4):373-378.
Johnson,
C. N., W. H. Benjamin, Jr., S. A. Moser, S. K. Hollingshead, X Zheng,
M. J. Crain, M. H. Nahm, and K. B. Waites. 2003. Genetic relatedness of
levofloxacin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from North America.
J. Clin. Microbiol. 41:2458-2464.
Zheng
X., M. Pang, A. Chan, A. Roberto, D. Warner, B. Yen-Lieberman.
2003. Direct Comparison of Hepatitis C Virus Genotypes Tested by INNO-LiPA HCV
II and TRUGENE HCV Genotyping Methods. J. Clin. Virol. 28:214-216.
Zheng,
X. S. Quianzon, Y. Mu, and B. Z. Katz. 2004. Comparison
of Two New Rapid Antigen Detection Assays for Respiratory Syncytial Virus with
Another Assay and Shell Vial Culture. J. Clin. Virol. (In press).
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