Research & Publications
Discover our team’s most recent contributions to wastewater surveillance research. Publications are listed below by order of publication date.
Searchable keywords/tags: COVID-19, Modeling, Variants, Normalization, Biomarker, HIV, Norovirus, Candida auris, Influenza, H5, RSV, subtyping
United States Influenza 2022–2023 Season Characteristics as Inferred from Wastewater Solids, Influenza Hospitalization, and Syndromic Data
M. E. Schoen, A. L. Bidwell, M. K. Wolfe, and A. B. Boehm
ES&T
November 2023
Keywords/tags: Influenza
Trends of Enterovirus D68 Concentrations in Wastewater, California, USA, February 2021–April 2023
A. B. Boehm, D.A. Wadford, B. Hughes, D. Duong, A.Chen, T.Padilla, C.Wright, L.Moua, T.Bullick, M. Salas, C.Morales, B.J. White, C.A. Glaser, D. J. Vugia, A.T. Yu, and M. K. Wolfe
Emerging Infectious Diseases
November 2023
Keywords/tags: EVD68
Human norovirus (HuNoV) GII RNA in wastewater solids at 145 United States wastewater treatment plants: comparison to positivity rates of clinical specimens and modeled estimates of HuNoV GII shedders
A.B. Boehm, M. K. Wolfe, B. J. White, B.Hughes, D.Duong, N. Banaei & A. L. Bidwell
Nature
August 2023
Keywords/tags: Norovirus
Divergence of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 and reported laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 incident case data coincident with wide-spread availability of at-home COVID-19 antigen tests
A. B. Boehm, M. K. Wolfe, B. White, B. Hughes, and D. Duong
June 2023
PeerJ
Keywords/tags: COVID-19
Human viral nucleic acids concentrations in wastewater solids from Central and Coastal California USA
A. B. Boehm, M.K. Wolfe, K. R. Wigginton, A. Bidwell, B. J. White, B. Hughes, D. Duong, V. Chan-Herur, H.N. Bischel & C. C. Naughton
Nature
June 2023
Keywords/tags: SARS-CoV-2, influenza, RSV, mpox, human metapnuemovirus, noroviurs, pepper mild mottle virus
Respiratory virus concentrations in human excretions that contribute to wastewater: a systematic review and meta-analysis
S. A. Lowry, M. K. Wolfe and A. B. Boehm
Journal of Water & Health
May 2023
Keywords/tags: Respiratory viruses
Identifying trends in SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater to infer changing COVID-19 incidence: Effect of sampling frequency
E. M. G. Chan, L. C. Kennedy, M. K. Wolfe, and A. B. Boehm
PLOS Water
April 2023
Keywords/tags: COVID-19
Wastewater concentrations of human influenza, metapneumovirus, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, and seasonal coronavirus nucleic-acids during the COVID-19 pandemic: …
A. B Boehm, B. Hughes, D. Duong, V. Chan-Herur, A. Buchman, M. K Wolfe and B. J White
The Lancet Microbe
May 2023
Keywords/tags: Respiratory viruses
Use of Wastewater for Mpox Outbreak Surveillance in California
M. K. Wolfe, A. T. Yu, D. Duong, M. S. Rane, B. Hughes, V. Chan-Herur, M. Donnelly, S. Chai, B. J. White, D. J. Vugia, and A. B. Boehm
NEJM
January 2023
Keywords/tags: Mpox
Wastewater-Based Detection of Two Influenza Outbreaks
M. K. Wolfe, D. Duong, K. M. Bakker, M. Ammerman, L. Mortenson, B. Hughes, P. Arts, A. S. Lauring, W. J. Fitzsimmons, E. Bendall, C. E. Hwang, E. T. Martin, B. J. White, A. B. Boehm, and K. R. Wigginton
ES&T Letters
July 2022
Keywords/tags: Influenza
Regional Replacement of SARS-CoV-2 Variant Omicron BA.1 with BA.2 as Observed through Wastewater Surveillance
A. B. Boehm, B. Hughes, M. K. Wolfe, B. J. White, D. Duong, and V. Chan-Herur
ES&T Letters
May 2022
Keywords/tags: COVID-19, variants
Wastewater-Based Estimation of the Effective Reproductive Number of SARS-CoV-2
J. S. Huisman, J. Scire, L. Caduff, X. Fernandez-Cassi, P. Ganesanandamoorthy, A. Kull, A. Scheidegger, E. Stachler, A. B. Boehm, B. Hughes, A. Knudson, A. Topol, K. R. Wigginton, M. K. Wolfe, T. Kohn, C. Ort, T. Stadler, and T. R. Julian
EHP
May 2022
Keywords/tags: COVID-19, Modeling
Estimating Relative Abundance of 2 SARS-CoV-2 Variants through Wastewater Surveillance at 2 Large Metropolitan Sites, United States
A. T. Yu, B. Hughes, M. K. Wolfe, T. Leon, D. Duong, A. Rabe, L. C. Kennedy, S. Ravuri, B. J. White, K. R. Wigginton, A. B. Boehm, and D. J. Vugia
Emerging Infectious DIseases
May 2022
Keywords/tags: COVID-19, variants
Effect of SARS-CoV-2 digital droplet RT-PCR assay sensitivity on COVID-19 wastewater based epidemiology
S. Kim, M. K. Wolfe, C. S. Criddle, D. H. Duong, V. Chan-Herur, B. J. White, and A. B. Boehm
PLOS Water
April 2022
Keywords/tags: COVID-19
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Mu, Beta, Gamma, Lambda, Delta, Alpha, and Omicron in Wastewater Settled Solids Using Mutation-Specific Assays Is Associated with Regional Detection of Variants in…
M. K. Wolfe, B. Hughes, D. Duong, V. Chan-Herur, K. R. Wigginton, B. J. White, and A. B. Boehm
ASM
April 2022
Keywords/tags: COVID-19, variants
SARS-CoV-2 RNA is enriched by orders of magnitude in primary settled solids relative to liquid wastewater at publicly owned treatment works
S. Kim, L. C. Kennedy, M. K. Wolfe, C. S. Criddle, D. H. Duong, A. Topol, B. J. White, R. S. Kantor, K. L. Nelson, J. A. Steele, K. Langlois, J. F. Griffith, A. G. Zimmer-Faust, S. L. McLellan, M. K. Schussman, M. Ammerman, K. R. Wigginton, K. M. Bakkerh and A. B. Boehm
Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology
February 2022
Keywords/tags: COVID-19
Notes from the Field: Early Evidence of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant in Community Wastewater — United States, November–December 2021
A. E. Kirby, R. M. Welsh, Z, A. Marsh, A. T. Yu, D. J. Vugia, A. B. Boehm, M. K. Wolfe, B. J. White S. R. Matzinger, A. Wheeler, L.Bankers, K.Andresen, C. Salatas, D.A. Gregory, M. C. Johnson, M.Trujillo, S. Kannoly, D. S. Smyth, J. J. Dennehy, N. Sapoval, K. Ensor, T. Treangen, L.B. Stadler, and L.Hopkins
MMWR
January 2022
Keywords/tags: COVID-19, variants
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) RNA in Wastewater Settled Solids Reflects RSV Clinical Positivity Rates
B. Hughes, D. Duong, B. J. White, K. R. Wigginton, E. M. G. Chan, M. K. Wolfe, and A. B. Boehm
ES&T Letters
January 2022
Keywords/tags: RSV
Standardized preservation, extraction and quantification techniques for detection of fecal SARS-CoV-2 RNA
A.Natarajan, A. Han, S. Zlitni, Erin F. Brooks, S. E. Vance, M. K. Wolfe, U.Singh, P. Jagannathan, B. A. Pinsky, A. B. Boehm & A. S. Bhatt
Nature
October 2021
Keywords/tags: SARS-CoV-2, laboratory methods
SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health Action
J. S. McClary-Gutierrez, M. C. Mattioli, P. Marcenac, A. I. Silverman, A.B. Boehm, K. Bibby, M. Balliet, F.L. de los Reyes, D.Gerrity, J.F. Griffith, P. A. Holden, D. Katehis, G. Kester, N. LaCross, E. K. Lipp, J. Meiman, R. T. Noble, D.Brossard , and S. L. McLellan
Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID)
September 2021
Keywords/tags: COVID-19, Public health action