Recent Publications

• Fast and accurate variant identification tool for sequencing-based studies.
  Gaston Jeffry M, et al. BMC biology 2024 0 0. (1) 90
  
• Simultaneous detection and characterization of common respiratory pathogens in wastewater through genomic sequencing.
  Williams Rachel C, et al. Water research 2024 0 0. 121612
  
• Temporal assessment of SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater and its epidemiological implications in COVID-19 case dynamics.
  Li Lin, et al. Heliyon 2024 0 0. (8) e29462
  
• Highly Multiplexed Reverse-Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification and Nanopore Sequencing (LAMPore) for Wastewater-Based Surveillance.
  Seju Kang et al. ACS ES T Water 2024 4 (4) 1629-1636
  
• Estimating the effective reproduction number of COVID-19 from population-wide wastewater data: An application in Kagawa, Japan.
  Okada Yuta, et al. Infectious Disease Modelling 2024 0 0. (3) 645-656
  
• Combining wastewater surveillance and case data in estimating the time-varying effective reproduction number.
  Jin Shihui, et al. The Science of the total environment 2024 0 0. 172469
  
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning responses to COVID-19 related inquiries.
  Zaeri Naser, et al. Journal of medical engineering & technology 2024 0 0. 1-20
  
• Proteomic Analysis of Salivary Extracellular Vesicles from COVID-19 Patients Reveals a Specific Anti-COVID-19 Response Protein Signature.
  Weber Laura, et al. International journal of molecular sciences 2024 0 0. (7)
  
• A mini review of reinfection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
  Shen Hongwei, et al. Health science reports 2024 0 0. (4) e2016
  
• Dynamic SARS-CoV-2 surveillance model combining seroprevalence and wastewater concentrations for post-vaccine disease burden estimates.
  Rochelle H Holm et al. Commun Med (Lond) 2024 4 (1) 70
  
• First Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Sewage and Wastewater in Ghana.
  Ewurabena Oduma Duker et al. Biomed Res Int 2024 4 9975781
  
• Dynamic SARS-CoV-2 surveillance model combining seroprevalence and wastewater concentrations for post-vaccine disease burden estimates
  RH Holm et al, Comm Med, April 9, 2024
  
  From the abstract: "We used weekly SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentration with a stratified random sampling of seroprevalence, and linked vaccination and hospitalization data, from April 2021–August 2021 in Jefferson County, Kentucky (USA). We show the 64% county vaccination rate translate into about a 61% decrease in SARS-CoV-2 incidence. The estimated effect of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant emergence is a 24-fold increase of infection counts, which correspond to an over 9-fold increase in wastewater concentration. Hospitalization burden and wastewater concentration have the strongest correlation (r?=?0.95) at 1 week lag."
• Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in a large pediatric hospital in Central Italy and development of a forecasting model to predict the seasonal peak.
  Cutrera Renato, et al. Italian journal of pediatrics 2024 0 0. (1) 65
  
• Responding to the Return of Influenza in the United States by Applying Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Surveillance, Analysis, and Modeling to Inform Understanding of Seasonal Influenza.
  Borchering Rebecca K, et al. JMIR public health and surveillance 2024 0 0. e54340
  
• Tracking collective emotions in 16 countries during COVID-19: a novel methodology for identifying major emotional events using Twitter.
  Chauhan Apurv, et al. Frontiers in psychology 2024 0 0. 1105875
  
• Disappearance of Imported Cases of Omicron Lineage BA.2.40 in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
  Liana Delima Fajar, et al. Iranian journal of medical sciences 2024 0 0. (3) 176-185
  
• Concerted efforts toward genomic surveillance of viral pathogens in immunocompromised individuals.
  Matheus Filgueira Bezerra et al. Lancet Microbe 2024 4
  
  From the article: "A recent study underscores the crucial need to closely monitor immunocompromised individuals with prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infections for emerging variants and investigate their phenotypic implications. Sequencing the genomes of the viruses from these cases would marginally elevate the cost in the whole COVID-19 genomic surveillance effort, and many countries with universal health systems could effectively integrate the tracking of prolonged COVID-19 infections in people living with HIV into their primary care programmes. "
• Nationwide Genomic Surveillance and Response to COVID-19: The VA SeqFORCE and SeqCURE Consortiums.
  Jay Krishnan et al. Fed Pract 2024 4 (11 Suppl 5) S44-S47
  
• Role of SARS-CoV-2 mutations in the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Philippe Colson et al. J Infect 2024 4 106150
  
• Environmental Surveillance of Flood Control Infrastructure Impacted by Unsheltered Individuals Leads to the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and Novel Mutations in the Spike Gene
  Harrington A, et al. Environ Sci Technol Lett. Apr 3, 2024.