User profiles for Yi-Gang Tong

Tong, Yigang (Tong, Yi-gang)

Beijing University of Chemical Technology (Beijing Inst Microbiol Epidemiol, UBC)
Verified email at mail.buct.edu.cn
Cited by 14193

[HTML][HTML] Identifying SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins

…, YW Zhang, MHH Shum, JF Jiang, HC Zhu, YG Tong… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The ongoing outbreak of viral pneumonia in China and across the world is associated with
a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 1. This outbreak has been tentatively associated with a …

[HTML][HTML] Fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin

…, Y Sun, J Li, P Daszak, LF Wang, ZL Shi, YG Tong… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Cross-species transmission of viruses from wildlife animal reservoirs poses a marked threat
to human and animal health 1 . Bats have been recognized as one of the most important …

Repurposing of clinically approved drugs for treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 in a 2019-novel coronavirus-related coronavirus model

…, XP An, ZD Liu, XQ He, LH Song, YG Tong - Chinese medical …, 2020 - mednexus.org
Background: Medicines for the treatment of 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections
are urgently needed. However, drug screening using live 2019-nCoV requires high-level …

Identification of 2019-nCoV related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins in southern China

TTY Lam, MHH Shum, HC Zhu, YG Tong, XB Ni… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The ongoing outbreak of viral pneumonia in China and beyond is associated with a novel
coronavirus, provisionally termed 2019-nCoV. This outbreak has been tentatively associated …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone

YG Tong, WF Shi, D Liu, J Qian, L Liang, XC Bo, J Liu… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
A novel Ebola virus (EBOV) first identified in March 2014 has infected more than 25,000
people in West Africa, resulting in more than 10,000 deaths 1 , 2 . Preliminary analyses of …

Clinical and virological characteristics of Ebola virus disease patients treated with favipiravir (T-705)—Sierra Leone, 2014

…, J Qian, L Liu, H Wang, YG Tong… - Clinical Infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. During 2014–2015, an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) swept across
parts of West Africa. No approved antiviral drugs are available for Ebola treatment currently. …

[HTML][HTML] Mining of epitopes on spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 from COVID-19 patients

B Zhang, Y Hu, L Chen, T Yau, Y Tong, J Hu, J Cai… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Dear Editor, The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a serious threat to global …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of a 2016 clinical isolate of Zika virus in non-human primates

…, H Fan, XP An, SH Sun, B Gao, YZ Fa, YG Tong… - …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Animal models are critical to understand disease and to develop countermeasures for the
ongoing epidemics of Zika virus (ZIKV). Here we report a non-human primate model using a …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence of human infection with Jingmen tick virus in China: A retrospective study

…, LF Li, JL Ye, QY Lv, XM Cui, Y Guan, YG Tong… - …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background A tick-borne segmented RNA virus called Jingmen tick virus (JMTV) was recently
identified, variants of which were detected in a non-human primate host and fatal patients …

Transmission dynamics of Ebola virus disease and intervention effectiveness in Sierra Leone

…, XL Li, BG Jiang, B Kargbo, YG Tong… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Sierra Leone is the most severely affected country by an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola
virus disease (EVD) in West Africa. Although successfully contained, the transmission …