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

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Wastewater Detection of Emerging Arbovirus Infections: Case Study of Dengue in the United States

  • M.K. Wolfe, A. Harvey Paulos, A. Zulli, D.Duong, B. Shelden, B.J. White, and A. B. Boehm

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Human viral nucleic acids concentrations in wastewater solids from Central and Coastal California USA

  • A. B. BoehmM.K. Wolfe, K. R. Wigginton, A. Bidwell, B. J. White, B. Hughes, D. Duong, V. Chan-Herur, H.N. Bischel & C. C. Naughton 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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