Guangming Zhong

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Guangming Zhong is a microbiologist who is currently Dielmann Endowed Chair of Genetic and Environmental Risk at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. [1] His lab works on microbial interactions and the development of vaccines for chlamydial infection. [1] [2]

He holds an MD in preventive medicine and MS in microbiology from Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, China, and completed his PhD in microbiology at the University of Manitoba, Canada. [1]

He has an h-index of 54 according to Semantic Scholar. [3]

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References

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