An investigation of transmission control measures during the first 50 days of the COVID-19 epidemic in China

…, B Li, J Cai, B Xu, Q Yang, B Wang, P Yang, Y Cui… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Responding to an outbreak of a novel coronavirus [agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)]
in December 2019, China banned travel to and from Wuhan city on 23 January 2020 …

Historical variations in mutation rate in an epidemic pathogen, Yersinia pestis

Y Cui, C Yu, Y Yan, D Li, Y Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The genetic diversity of Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of plague, is extremely limited
because of its recent origin coupled with a slow clock rate. Here we identified 2,326 SNPs from …

Adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 in BALB/c mice for testing vaccine efficacy

…, H Fan, YQ Deng, Y Wang, Y Teng, Z Zhao, Y Cui… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has prioritized the
development of small-animal models for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-…

Yersinia pestis genome sequencing identifies patterns of global phylogenetic diversity

…, M Feldkamp, B Kusecek, AJ Vogler, Y Li, Y Cui… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Plague is a pandemic human invasive disease caused by the bacterial agent Yersinia pestis.
We here report a comparison of 17 whole genomes of Y. pestis isolates from global sources…

Structural characterization of natural loess and remolded loess under triaxial tests

M Jiang, F Zhang, H Hu, Y Cui, J Peng - Engineering Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper characterizes the microstructural evolution of saturated natural loess from a site
in Jingyang, China, during triaxial test along two stress paths. For comparison, the same soil …

New uniqueness results for boundary value problem of fractional differential equation

Y Cui, W Ma, Q Sun, X Su - Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, 2018 - zurnalai.vu.lt
Cui et al. … Recently, the following nonlinear fractional differential equations with two point
boundary conditions was also studied by Cui [4]: … Cui, Uniqueness of solution for boundary …

Novel Plasmid and Its Variant Harboring both a blaNDM-1 Gene and Type IV Secretion System in Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter lwoffii

…, X Yang, X Xiao, C Luan, Y Yang, Y Cui… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
The spread of the bla NDM-1 gene is gaining worldwide attentions. This gene is usually
carried by large plasmids and has been discovered in diverse bacteria since it was originally …

[HTML][HTML] Uniqueness of solution for boundary value problems for fractional differential equations

Y Cui - Applied Mathematics Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work, we investigate the uniqueness of solutions for a class of nonlinear boundary
value problems for fractional differential equations. The main novelty of this work is that the …

[HTML][HTML] Insight into Microevolution of Yersinia pestis by Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

Y Cui, Y Li, O Gorgé, ME Platonov, Y Yan, Z Guo… - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Background Yersinia pestis, the pathogen of plague, has greatly influenced human history
on a global scale. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR), an …

Long-term settlement behaviour of metro tunnels in the soft deposits of Shanghai

SL Shen, HN Wu, YJ Cui, ZY Yin - Tunnelling and Underground Space …, 2014 - Elsevier
The Quaternary soft deposits of Shanghai form a multi-aquifer–aquitard system (MAAS) with
aquitards of high compressibility and aquifers of high groundwater table. The metro tunnels …