Ming-Fang Cheng
Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan.
Biography
School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taiwan. 1993, M.D. Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Pediatric Residency 1999. Research fellowship, Division of Infectious Diseases, National Health Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan 2001. Research fellowship, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children Hospital Boston, MA, USA 2007. Research fellowship, School of Medicine, Harvard University, MA, USA 2007. Associate Professor, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan 2016. Professor, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan 2023. Lately, I conducted several studies and published several SCI literatures in the field of ESBL E. coli infection in children, adults as well as environment and community carriage, such as the article Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli bacteremia: comparison of pediatric and adult populations in J Microbiol Immunol Infect. In 2018. Bloodstream Infection with Extended-spectrum Beta-lactamase–producing Escherichia coli: the role of virulence genes in J Microbiol Immunol Infect. In 2019. Prevalence and Risk Factors for Colonization by Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing or ST 131 Escherichia coli among Asymptomatic Adults in Community Settings in Southern Taiwan in Infection and Drug Resistance in 2019. Prevalence and Household Risk Factors for Fecal Carriage of ESBL-Producing, Sequence Type 131, and Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli among Children in Southern Taiwan in J Microbiol Immunol Infect, and Distribution and Genomic Characterization of Third Generation Cephalosporin Resistant Escherichia coli Isolated From a Single Family and Home Environment: A 2-Year Longitudinal Study in Antibiotics in August, 2022. Published and/ or presented over 70 abstracts and peer reviewed publications.