[HTML][HTML] Campus node-based wastewater surveillance enables COVID-19 case localization and confirms lower SARS-CoV-2 burden relative to the surrounding …

J Lee, N Acosta, BJ Waddell, K Du, K Xiang… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has been established as a powerful tool that can
guide health policy at multiple levels of government. However, this approach has not been …

Multimodal surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at a university enables development of a robust outbreak response framework

BA Petros, JS Paull, CH Tomkins-Tinch, BC Loftness… - Med, 2022 - cell.com
Background Universities are vulnerable to infectious disease outbreaks, making them ideal
environments to study transmission dynamics and evaluate mitigation and surveillance …

Early introduction and rise of the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant in highly vaccinated university populations

BA Petros, J Turcinovic, NL Welch, LF White… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is transmissible in vaccinated and unvaccinated
populations. Here, we describe the rapid dominance of Omicron following its introduction to …

Early introduction and rise of the Omicron severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant in highly vaccinated university populations

BA Petros, J Turcinovic, NL Welch… - Clinical Infectious …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background The Omicron variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) is highly transmissible in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. The …

SARS-CoV-2 genomic diversity in households highlights the challenges of sequence-based transmission inference

EE Bendall, G Paz-Bailey, GA Santiago, CA Porucznik… - Msphere, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The reliability of sequence-based inference of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission is not clear. Sequence data from infections …

Large university with high COVID-19 incidence is not associated with excess cases in non-student population

N Bharti, B Lambert, C Exten, C Faust, M Ferrari… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Large US colleges and universities that re-opened campuses in the fall of 2020 and the
spring of 2021 experienced high per capita rates of COVID-19. Returns to campus were …

Mutual information networks reveal evolutionary relationships within the influenza A virus polymerase

S Arcos, AX Han, AJW Te Velthuis, CA Russell… - Virus …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The influenza A virus (IAV) RNA polymerase is an essential driver of IAV evolution.
Mutations that the polymerase introduces into viral genome segments during replication are …

One health genomic surveillance and response to a university-based outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta AY. 25 lineage, Arizona, 2021

HD Yaglom, M Maurer, B Collins, J Hojnacki… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Genomic surveillance and wastewater tracking strategies were used to strengthen the public
health response to an outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta AY. 25 lineage associated with a …

Transmission Dynamics and Rare Clustered Transmission Within an Urban University Population Before Widespread Vaccination

J Turcinovic, K Kuhfeldt, M Sullivan… - The Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Universities returned to in-person learning in 2021 while SARS-CoV-2 spread
remained high. At the time, it was not clear whether in-person learning would be a source of …

Genomic surveillance identifies potential risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 transmission at a mid-sized university in a small rural town

KR Andrews, DD New, DS Gour, K Francetich… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in institutions of higher education
(IHEs) is important because these settings have potential for rapid viral spread. Here, we …