2024
Vigil K, Wu H, Aw TG. (2024). A systematic review on global zoonotic virus mortality events in marine mammals. One Health. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2024.100872
Singh S, Aw TG, Rose JB. (2024). Evaluation of an automated ultrafiltration system for concentrating a range of viruses from saline waters. Food and Environmental Virology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-024-09602-6
Hamilton KA, Harrison JC, Mitchell J, Weir MH, Verhougstraete M, Haas CN, Nejadhashemi AP, Libarkin J, Aw TG, Bibby K et al. (2024). Research gaps and priorities for Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA). Risk Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.14318
Creamer C, Waldrop M, Stagg CL, Manies K, Baustian M, Laurenzano C, Aw TG, Haw M, Merino S, SevilgenS, Villani R, Ward E (2024). Vegetation Loss Following Vertical Drowning of Mississippi River Deltaic Wetlands Leads to Faster Microbial Decomposition and Decreases in Soil Carbon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.129: e2023JG007832. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007832
Vigil K, D’Souza N, Bazner J, Cedraz FM, Fisch S, Rose JB, Aw TG (2024). Long-term monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater using a coordinated workflow of droplet digital PCR and nanopore sequencing. Water Research. 254: 121338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121338
Brighton K, Fisch S, Wu H, Vigil K, Aw TG (2024) Targeted Community Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 and Mpox Virus During a Mass-Gathering Event. Science of the Total Environment. 906: 167443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167443
2023
Vigil K and Aw TG (2023) Comparison of de novo assembly using long-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing of viruses in fecal and serum samples from marine mammals. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14:1248323. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1248323
Bargu S, Skaggs B, Boudreaux M, Hammond CN, Snow C, Aw TG, Stumpf R. (2023). Water quality and toxic cyanobacteria in oligohaline estuary beaches during the longest Mississippi River basin flood event in 2019. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01247-1
Wu H, Juel MAI, Eytcheson S, Munir M, Aw TG, Molina M. (2023). Temporal and spatial relationship of CrAssphage and enteric viral and bacterial pathogens in wastewater in North Carolina. Water Research. 239: 120008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.120008
Scott LC, Aubee A, Wilson MJ, Esser SM, Descamps D, Lee N, Distler E, Aw TG. (2023). Leave No Trace? Ecological and Anthropogenic Determinants of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in a Recreational Alpine Environment. Environmental Research. 216: 114617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.114617
2022
Scott L.C., Esser S.M., Lee N.L., Aubee A., Flood M.T., Aw T.G. (2022) Use of microbial fecal indicator monitoring and fecal source tracking as a park management tool in Rocky Mountain National Park. Environmental Challenges. 8: 100583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2022.100583
Schoolmaster Jr. D.R., Stagg C.L., Creamer C., Laurenzano C., Ward E.J., Waldrop M.P., Baustian M.M., Aw T.G., Merino S., Villani R., Scott L.C. (2022) A model of the spatiotemporal dynamics of soil carbon following coastal wetland loss applied to a Louisiana salt marsh in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 127(6): e2022JG006807. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006807
Aw T.G., Jordan K., Ra K., Ley C.J., Whelton A.J. (2022) Prevalence of opportunistic pathogens in school building premise plumbing systems during periods of low use and a transition to normal use. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 241: 113945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2022.113945
Montagnino E., Proctor C.R., Ra K., Ley C., Noh Y., Vigil K., Aw T.G., Dasika S., Whelton A.J. (2022) Over the weekend: water stagnation and contaminant exceedances in a green office building. PLOS Water.1(3): e0000006. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000006
Julien R., Saravi B., Nejadhashemi A.P., Whelton A.J., Aw T.G., Mitchell J. (2022) Identifying water quality variables most strongly influencing Legionella concentrations in building plumbing. AWWA Water Science. 4(1): e1267. https://doi.org/10.1002/aws2.1267
2021
Flood M.T., D’Souza N., Rose J.B., Aw T.G. (2021) Methods Evaluation for Rapid Concentration and Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in Different Wastewater Matrices using Droplet Digital and Quantitative RT-PCR. Food and Environmental Virology. 13: 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-021-09488-8
Scott L.C., Aubee A., Babahaji L., Vigil K., Tims S., Aw T.G. (2021) Targeted Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 on a University Campus for COVID-19 Outbreak Detection and Mitigation. Environmental Research. 200: 111374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111374
Scott L.C., Wilson M.J., Esser S.M., Lee N.L., Wheeler M.E., Aubee A., Aw T.G. (2021) Assessing Visitor Use Impact on Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Soil and Water Environments of Rocky Mountain National Park. Science of the Total Environment. 785: 147122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147122.
Kiulia N.M., Gonzalez R., Thompson H., Aw T.G., Rose J.B. (2021) “Quantification and Trends of Rotavirus and Enterovirus in Untreated Sewage Using Reverse Transcription Droplet Digital PCR. Food and Environmental Virology. 13:154-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-020-09455-9
Pecson B.M., Darby E., Haas C.N., Amha Y., Bartolo M., Danielson R., Dearborn Y., Di Giovanni G., Ferguson C., Fevig S., Gaddis E., Gray D., Lukasik G., Mull B., Olivas L., Olivieri A., Qu, Y., SARS-CoV-2 Interlaboratory Consortium (Aw, T.G. et al.) (2021) “Reproducibility and sensitivity of 36 methods to quantify the SARS-CoV-2 genetic signal in raw wastewater: findings from an interlaboratory methods evaluation in the U.S.” Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology. 7:504-520. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0EW00946F
2020
Ra K., Odimayomi T., Ley C.J., Aw T.G., Rose J.B., Whelton A.J. (2020) “Finding building water quality challenges in a 7-year old LEED school: implications for building design, sampling and remediation” Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology. 6: 2691-2703.
Ley C.J., Proctor C.R., Jordan K., Ra K., Noh Y., Odimayomi T., Julien R., Mitchell J., Nejadhashemi A.P., Whelton A.J., Aw T.G. (2020) “Impacts of municipal water-rainwater source transitions on microbial and chemical water quality dynamics at the tap” Environmental Science and Technology. 54(18): 11453-11463.
Ley C.J., Proctor C.R., Singh G., Ra K., Noh Y., Odimayomi T., Salehi M., Julien R., Mitchell J., Nejadhashemi A.P., Whelton A.J., Aw T.G. (2020) “Drinking water microbiology in a water-efficient building: stagnation, seasonality, and physicochemical effects on opportunistic pathogen and total bacteria proliferation” Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology. 6: 2902-2913.
Wilson M.J., Aw T.G., Sherchan S., Wickliffe J.K., Murphy S.A. (2020) “The environmental health and emergency preparedness impacts of Hurricane Katrina” American Journal of Public Health. 110(10): 1476-1477.
Sherchan S., Shahin S., Ward L.M., Tandukar S., Aw T.G., Schmitz B., Ahmed W., Kitajima M. (2020) “First detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in North America: A study in Louisiana, USA” Science of the Total Environment. 743: 140621.
Scott L.C., Lee N., Aw T.G. (2020) “Antibiotic resistance in minimally human-impacted environments” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17: 3939.
Julien R., Dreelin E., Whelton A.J., Lee J., Aw T.G., Dean K., Mitchell J. (2020) “Knowledge gaps and risks associated with premise plumbing drinking water quality” AWWA Water Science. E1177.
Ji , Aw T.G., Van Bonn W., Rose J.B. (2020) “Evaluation of a portable nanopore-based sequencer for detection of viruses in water” Journal of Virological Methods. 278(113805):1-9.
2019
Aw T.G., Sivaganesan M., Briggs S., Dreelin E., Aslan A., Dorevitch S., Shrestha A., Isaacs N., Kinzelman J., Kleinheinz G., Noble R., Rediske R., Scull B., Rosenberg S., Weberman B., Sivy T., Southwell B., Siefring S., Oshima K., Haugland R. (2019) “Evaluation of multiple laboratory performance and variability in analysis of recreational freshwaters by a rapid E. coli qPCR method (Draft Method C)” Water Research. 156: 465-474.
Sivaganesan M., Aw T.G., Briggs S., Dreelin E., Aslan A., Dorevitch S., Shrestha A., Isaacs N., Kinzelman J., Kleinheinz G., Noble R., Rediske R., Scull B., Rosenberg S., Weberman B., Sivy T., Southwell B., Siefring S., Oshima K., Haugland R. (2019) “Standardized data quality acceptance criteria for a rapid E. coli qPCR method (Draft Method C) for water quality monitoring at recreational beaches” Water Research. 156: 456-464.
Cooksey E.M., Singh G., Scott L.C., Aw T.G. (2019) “Detection of coliphages and human adenoviruses in a subtropical estuarine lake” Science of the Total Environment. 649: 1514-1521.
2018
Aw T.G. (2018) “Environmental aspects and features of critical pathogen groups” In Global Water Pathogens Project. http://www.waterpathogens.org. Edited by J.B. Rose and B. Jiménez-Cisneros. Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, UNESCO.
2017
Kim Y., van Bonn W., Aw T.G., Rose J.B. (2017) “Aquarium viromes: viromes of human-managed aquatic systems” Frontiers in Microbiology. 8: 1231.
Wengert S., Aw T.G., Ryser E.T., Rose J.B. (2017). “Postharvest reduction of coliphage MS2 from romaine lettuce during simulated commercial processing with and without a chlorine-based sanitizer” Journal of Food Protection. 80: 220-224.
2016
Aw T.G., Wengert S., Rose J.B. (2016). “Metagenomic analysis of viruses associated with field-grown and retail lettuce identifies human and animal viruses” International Journal of Food Microbiology. 223: 50-56.
Enger K., Leak E.S., Aw T.G., Coulliette A.D., Rose J.B. (2016). “Antibacterial and antiviral effectiveness of two household water treatment devices that use monobrominated hydantoinylated polystyrene” Journal of Water and Health. 14: 950-960.
Kim Y., Aw T.G., Rose J.B. (2016). “Transporting ocean viromes: Invasion of the aquatic biosphere” PLoS ONE. 11(4): e0152671.
Weiss P., Aw T.G., Urquhart G., Rose J.B. (2016). “Well water quality in rural Nicaragua using a low cost bacterial test and microbial source tracking” Journal of Water and Health. 14(2): 199-207.
2015
Kim Y., Aw T.G., Teal T.K., Rose J.B. (2015). “Metagenomic investigation of viral communities in ballast water” Environmental Science and Technology. 49(14): 8396-8407.
2014
Aw T.G., Howe A. and Rose J.B. (2014) “Metagenomic approaches for direct and cell culture evaluation of the virological quality of wastewater” Journal of Virological Methods. 210: 15-21.
This work has been highlighted in a feature article in GenomeWeb.
Baustian M.M., Mavrommati G., Dreelin E.A., Esselman P., Schultze S.R., Qian L., Aw T.G., Luo L. and Rose J.B. (2014) “A one hundred year review of the socioeconomic and ecological systems of Lake St. Clair, North America” Journal of Great Lakes Research. 40(1): 15-26.
2013
Wong M.V.M., Hashsham S.A., Gulari E., Rouillard J.-M., Aw T.G. and Rose J.B. (2013) “Detection and characterization of Human Pathogenic Viruses Circulating in Community Wastewater using Multi Target Microarrays and PCR” Journal of Water and Health. 11(4): 659-670.
Raith M.R., Kelty C.A., Griffith J.F., Schriewer A., Wuertz S., Mieszkin S., Gourmelon M., Reischer G., Farnleitner A.H., Ervin J., Holden P., Jay J.A., Boehm A.B., Aw T.G., Rose J.B., Meijer W.G., Sivaganesan M. and Shanks O.C. (2013) “Comparison of PCR and quantitative real-time PCR methods for the characterization of ruminant and cattle fecal pollution sources” Water Research. 47(18): 6921-6928.
2012
Aw T.G. and Rose J.B. (2012) “Detection of pathogens in water: from phylochips to qPCR to pyrosequencing” Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 23(3): 422-430.
Aw T.G., Gin K.Y.H., Goh S.G. and Te S.H. (2012) “Sample preparation of microbial contaminants in Water” In Comprehensive Sampling and Sample Preparation, Volume 3. Elsevier, Academic Press: Oxford, UK, pp 723–742.
2009-2011
Aw T.G. and Gin K.Y.H. (2011) “Prevalence and genetic diversity of waterborne pathogenic viruses in surface waters of tropical urban catchments” Journal of Applied Microbiology. 110(4): 903-914.
Aw T.G. and Gin K.Y.H. (2010) “Environmental surveillance and molecular characterization of human enteric viruses in tropical urban wastewaters” Journal of Applied Microbiology. 109(2): 716-730.
Aw T.G., Gin K.Y.H., Oon L.L.E., Chen E.X. and Woo C.H. (2009) “Prevalence and genotypes of human noroviruses in tropical urban surface waters and clinical samples in Singapore” Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75(15) 4984-4992.