2026
Wastewater detections of Bordetella pertussis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis nucleic acids in active disease outbreak sites in the USA
Abigail P. Paulos, Alessandro Zulli, Dorothea Duong, Bridgette Shelden, Bradley J. White, Devin North, Alexandria B. Boehm, Marlene K. Wolfe. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
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Measles RNA detection in wastewater solids: longitudinal monitoring at a national scale
Abigail P. Paulos, Alessandro Zulli, Bridgette Shelden, Dorothea Duong, Alexandria B. Boehm, Marlene K. Wolfe. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. 2026.
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Surveillance on California dairy farms reveals multiple sources of H5N1 transmission
A.J. Campbell, Meredith Shephard, Abigail P. Paulos, Matthew Pauly, Michelle Vu, Chloe Stenkamp-Strahm, Kaitlyn Bushfield, Betsy Hunter-Binns, Orlando Sablon, Emily E. Bendall, William J. Fitzimmons, Kayla Brizuela, Gracie Quirk, Nirmal Kumar, Brian McCluskey, Nishit Shetty, Kevin Abernathy, Adam S. Lauring, Blaine T. Melody, Marlene Wolfe, Jason Lombard, Seema S. Lakdawala. PLoS Biology. 2026.
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Prospective metagenomic sequencing of wastewater across the United States yields robust viral enrichment and concordance with digital PCR measurements
Marlene K. Wolfe, Devin North, Alexander L. Jaffe, Alessandro Zulli, Dorothea Duong, Bridgette Shelden, Miriam Goldman, Miles Richardson, Peter Thana, Vikram Chan-Herur, Pouya Kheradpour, Amanda L. Bidwell, Stephen P. Hilton, Sheena Conforti, Abigail P. Paulos, Alexandria B. Boehm Applied and Environmental Microbiology.. 2026.
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Randomized incentives to increase participation in COVID testing in rural Kenya
Benard Chieng, Yoshika S Crider, Colin Aitken, Sylvie B Araka, Richelle W Kihoro, Henry Kanyi, Julie E Powers, Brandon Tan, Abigail P Paulos, Alexandre Simoes Gomes, Carol Nekesa, Cecilia Nekesa, Blastus Bwire, Dennis Odhiambo Allela, John Kiiru, Michael Kremer, Sammy M Njenga, Amy J Pickering medrxiv. 2026.
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2025
Detection of Hemagglutinin H5 influenza A virus RNA and model of potential inputs in an urban California sewershed
Abigail Paulos, Bradley White, Dorothea Duong, Bridgette Shelden, Alexandria Boehm, Marlene Wolfe. Environmental Science & Technology. 2025.
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Zoonotic and environmental sources of infant enteric pathogen infections in pastoralist communities identified with longitudinal sampling
Abigail Paulos, John Mboya, Jeremy Lowe, Daehyun Daniel Kim, Hannah C. Wharton, Faith Thuita, Valerie L. Flax, Sammy Njenga, Angela Harris, Amy J. Pickering. Environmental Science & Technology. 2025.
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Temperature and precipitation affect the water fetching time burden in Sub-Saharan Africa
Abigail Harvey Paulos, David Alexander Carroll, Julie Powers, Jake Campolo, Daehyun Daniel Kim, Avery Cohn, Amy J. Pickering. Nature Communications. 2025.
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Context-Seq: CRISPR-Cas9 Targeted Nanopore Sequencing for Transmission Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance
Erica R. Fuhrmeister, Sooyeol Kim, Shruteek A. Mairal, Caroline McCormack, Benard Chieng, Jenna M. Swarthout, Abigail Harvey Paulos, Sammy M. Njenga, Amy J. Pickering. Nature Communications. 2025.
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2023
Wastewater detection of emerging arbovirus infections: Case study of Dengue in the United States
Marlene Wolfe, Abigail Harvey Paulos, Alessandro Zulli, Dorothea Duong, Bridgette Shelden, Bradley White, Alexandria Boehm. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 2023.
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Evaluating the relationship between community water and sanitation access and the global burden of antibiotic resistance: an ecological study
Erica Fuhrmeister, Abigail Harvey, Maya Nadimpalli, Karin Gallandat, Argaw Ambelu, Benjamin F. Arnold, Joe Brown, Oliver Cumming, Ashlee M. Earl, Gagandeep Kang, Samuel Kariuki, Karen Levy, Chris E. Pinto Jimenez, Jenna M. Swarthout, Gabriel Trueba, Pablo Tsukayama, Colin J. Worby, Amy J. Pickering. The Lancet Microbe. 2023.
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2021
Longitudinal Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on High-Touch Surfaces in a Community Setting
Abigail Harvey, Erica R. Fuhrmeister, Molly E. Cantrell, Ana K. Pitol, Jenna M. Swarthout, Julie E. Powers, Maya L. Nadimpalli, Timothy R. Julian, Amy J. Pickering. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 2021.
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A case study in participatory science with mutual capacity building between university and tribal researchers to investigate drinking water quality in rural Maine
Tchelet Segev, Abigail Harvey, Asha Ajmani, Christopher Johnson, William Longfellow, Kathleen M. Vandiver, Harold Hemond. Environmental Research. 2021.
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