Publications

Publications

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. In press.

Preprint

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. In press.

Preprint

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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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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2024

Detection of hemagglutinin H5 influenza A virus sequence in municipal wastewater solids at wastewater treatment plants with increases in influenza A in spring, 2024

Marlene Wolfe, Dorothea Duong, Bridgette Shelden, Elana Chan, Vikram Chan-Herur, Stephen Hilton, Abigail Harvey Paulos, Xiang-Ru Xu, Alessandro Zulli, Bradley White, Alexandria Boehm. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 2024.

🏆 Best Paper Award 2024

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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.

^*Co-first authors

🏆 Best Paper Award 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.

^*Co-first authors

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2018

Understanding factors influencing the detection of mercury policies in modelled Laurentian Great Lakes wet deposition

Amanda Giang, Shaojie Song, Marilena Muntean, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Abigail Harvey, Elizabeth Berg, Noelle E. Selin. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts. 2018.

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