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Hoffman, K.*; Holcomb, D.*; Reckling, S.; Clerkin, T.; Blackwood, D.; Beattie, R.; de los Reyes, F.; Harris, A.; Mitasova, H.; Kotlarz, N.; Stewart, J.; Kazenelson, J.; Cahoon, L.; Frampton, A.; Munir, M.; Lee, A.; Berkowitz, S.; Noble, R.; Guidry, V.; Engel, L.; Serre, M.; Christensen, A. Using Detrending to Assess SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Loads as a Leading Indicator of Fluctuations in COVID-19 Cases at Fine Temporal Scales: Correlations Across Twenty Sewersheds in North Carolina. PLOS Water. 2023, 2 (10), e0000140, 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000140. [pdf]
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Holcomb, D.; Monteiro, V.; Capone, D.; António, V.; Chiluvane, M.; Cumbane, V.; Ismael, N.; Knee, J.; Kowalsky, E.; Lai, A. J.; Linden, Y.; Mataveia, E.; Nalá, R.; Rao, G.; Ribeiro, J.; Cumming, O.; Viegas, E.; Brown, J. Long-term impacts of an urban sanitation intervention on enteric pathogens in children in Maputo city, Mozambique: study protocol for a cross-sectional follow-up to the Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) trial 5 years postintervention BMJ Open 2023, 13:e067941, 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-06794. [pdf]
Mertens, A.N., Arnold, B.F., Benjamin-Chung, J., Boehm, A.B., Brown, J., Capone, D., Clasen, T., Fuhrmeister, E., Grembi, J., Holcomb, D., Knee, J., Kwong, L., Lin, A., Luby, S., Nala, R., Nelson, K., Njenga, S., Null, C., Pickering, A.J., Rahman, M., Reese, H., Steinbaum, L., Stewart, J., Thilakaratne, R., Cumming, O., Colford, Jr., J.M., Ercumen, A.. Associations between Detection of Enteropathogens and Microbial Source Tracking Markers in the Environment and Child Enteric Infections and Growth: A Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. SSRN preprint 2023, 10.2139/ssrn.4313717. [pdf]
Barker, T.; Capone, D.; Amato, H. K.; Clark, R.; Henderson, A.; Holcomb, D. A.; Kim, E.; Pape, J.; Parker, E.; VanderYacht, T.; Graham, J.; Brown, J. Public Toilets Have Reduced Enteric Pathogen Hazards in San Francisco. PLOS Water. 2023, 2: e0000152, 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000152. [pdf]
Mertens, A., Arnold, B.F., Benjamin-Chung, J., Boehm, A.B., Brown, J., Capone, D., Clasen, T., Fuhrmeister, E., Grembi, J.A., Holcomb, D., Knee, J., Kwong, L.H., Lin, A., Luby, S.P., Nala, R., Nelson, K., Njenga, S.M., Null, C., Pickering, A.J., Rahman, M., Reese, H.E., Steinbaum, L., Stewart, J., Thilakaratne, R., Cumming, O., Colford, J.M., Ercumen, A. Effects of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions on detection of enteropathogens and host-specific faecal markers in the environment: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health 2023, 7, e197–e208, 10.1016/s2542-5196(23)00028-1. [pdf]
Grube, A. M.; Coleman, C. K.; LaMontagne, C. D.; Miller, M. E.; Kothegal, N. P.; Holcomb, D. A.; Blackwood, A. D.; Clerkin, T. J.; Serre, M. L.; Engel, L. S.; Guidry, V. T.; Noble, R. T.; Stewart, J. R. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater and Comparison to COVID-19 Cases in Two Sewersheds, North Carolina, USA. Science of The Total Environment 2023, 858, 159996, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159996. [pdf]
Lai, A. J.; Velez, I.; Ambikapathi, R.; Seng, K.; Levy, K.; Kowalsky, E.; Holcomb, D.; Konstantinidis, K. T.; Cumming, O.; Brown, J. Independent and Combined Effects of Nutrition and Sanitation Interventions on Child Growth and Enteric Pathogen Carriage in Rural Cambodia: A Factorial Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial. medRxiv preprint 2022, version 6, 10.1101/2021.05.21.21257546. [pdf]
Kotlarz, N.; Holcomb, D. A.; Tanvir Pasha, A. B. M.; Reckling, S.; Kays, J.; Lai, Y.-C.; Daly, S.; Palani, S.; Bailey, E.; Guidry, V. T.; Christensen, A.; Berkowitz, S.; Hoppin, J. A.; Mitasova, H.; Engel, L. S.; Reyes, F. L. de los; Harris, A. Timing and Trends for Municipal Wastewater, Lab-Confirmed Case, and Syndromic Case Surveillance of COVID-19 in Raleigh, North Carolina. American Journal of Public Health 2022, e1–e10, 10.2105/AJPH.2022.307108. [pdf]
Holcomb, D. A.; Quist, A. J. L.; Engel, L. S. Exposure to Industrial Hog and Poultry Operations and Urinary Tract Infections in North Carolina, USA. Science of The Total Environment 2022, 853, 158749, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158749. [pdf]
Quist, A. J. L.; Holcomb, D. A.; Fliss, M. D.; Delamater, P. L.; Richardson, D. B.; Engel, L. S. Exposure to industrial hog operations and gastrointestinal illness in North Carolina, USA. Science of The Total Environment 2022, 830, 154823, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154823. [pdf]
Barua, V. B.; Juel, M. A. I.; Blackwood, A. D.; Clerkin, T.; Ciesielski, M.; Sorinolu, A. J.; Holcomb, D. A.; Young, I.; Kimble, G.; Sypolt, S.; Engel, L. S.; Noble, R. T.; Munir, M. Tracking the Temporal Variation of COVID-19 Surges through Wastewater-Based Epidemiology during the Peak of the Pandemic: A Six-Month Long Study in Charlotte, North Carolina. Science of The Total Environment 2022, 814, 152503, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152503. [pdf]
Holcomb, D. A.; Knee, J.; Capone, D.; Sumner, T.; Adriano, Z.; Nalá, R.; Cumming, O.; Brown, J.; Stewart, J. R. Impacts of an urban sanitation intervention on fecal indicators and the prevalence of human fecal contamination in Mozambique. Environmental Science and Technology 2021, 55 (17), 11667–11679, 10.1021/acs.est.1c01538. [pdf]
Capone, D., Berendes, D., Cumming, O., Holcomb, D.A., Knee, J., Konstantinidis, K.T., Levy, K., Nala, R., Risk, B.B., Brown, J., 2021. Impact of an Urban Sanitation Intervention on Enteric Pathogen Detection in Soils. Environmental Science and Technology 2021, 55 (14), 9989–10000, 10.1021/acs.est.1c02168. [pdf]
Knee, J., Sumner, T., Adriano, Z., Anderson, C., Bush, F., Capone, D., Casmo, V., Holcomb, D.A., Kolsky, P., MacDougall, A., Molotkova, E., Braga, J.M., Russo, C., Schmidt, W.P., Stewart, J., Zambrana, W., Zuin, V., Nalá, R., Cumming, O., Brown, J. Effects of an urban sanitation intervention on childhood enteric infection and diarrhea in Maputo, Mozambique: a controlled before-and-after trial. eLife 2021, 10, e62278, 10.7554/eLife.62278. [pdf]
Holcomb, D.; Palli, L.; Setty, K.; Uprety, S. Water and Health Seminar and Special Issue Highlight Ideas That Will Change the Field. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 2021, 234, 113716, 10.1016/j.ijheh.2021.113716. [pdf]
Holcomb, D. A.; Stewart, J. R. Microbial Indicators of Fecal Pollution: Recent Progress and Challenges in Assessing Water Quality. Current Environmental Health Reports 2020, 7, 311-324, 10.1007/s40572-020-00278-1. [pdf]
Holcomb, D. A.; Knee, J.; Sumner, T.; Adriano, Z.; de Bruijn, E.; Nalá, R.; Cumming, O.; Brown, J.; Stewart, J. R. Human Fecal Contamination of Water, Soil, and Surfaces in Households Sharing Poor-Quality Sanitation Facilities in Maputo, Mozambique. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 2020, 226, 113496, 10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113496. [pdf]
Berendes, D.; Capone, D.; Knee, J.; Holcomb, D.; Sultana, S.; Pickering, A. J.; Brown, J. Associations between Enteric Pathogen Carriage and Height-for-Age, Weight-for-Age and Weight-for-Height in Children under 5 Years Old in Urban Dhaka, Bangladesh. Epidemiology and Infection 2020, 148 (e39), 10.1017/S0950268820000369. [pdf]
Capone, D.; Adriano, Z.; Berendes, D.; Cumming, O.; Dreibelbis, R.; Holcomb, D. A.; Knee, J.; Ross, I.; Brown, J. A Localized Sanitation Status Index as a Proxy for Fecal Contamination in Urban Maputo, Mozambique. PLoS One 2019, 14 (10), e0224333, 10.1371/journal.pone.0224333. [pdf]
Holcomb, D. A.; Messier, K. P.; Serre, M. L.; Rowny, J. G.; Stewart, J. R. Geostatistical Prediction of Microbial Water Quality Throughout a Stream Network Using Meteorology, Land Cover, and Spatiotemporal Autocorrelation. Environmental Science and Technology 2018, 52 (14), 7775–7784, 10.1021/acs.est.8b01178. [pdf]
Luh, J.; Christenson, E. C.; Toregozhina, A.; Holcomb, D. A.; Witsil, T.; Hamrick, L. R.; Ojomo, E.; Bartram, J. Vulnerability Assessment for Loss of Access to Drinking Water Due to Extreme Weather Events. Climatic Change 2015, 133 (4), 665–679, 10.1007/s10584-015-1493-0. [pdf]
Brown, J.; Cumming, O.; Bartram, J.; Cairncross, S.; Ensink, J.; Holcomb, D.; Knee, J.; Kolsky, P.; Liang, K.; Liang, S.; et al. A Controlled, before-and-after Trial of an Urban Sanitation Intervention to Reduce Enteric Infections in Children: Research Protocol for the Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) Study, Mozambique. BMJ Open 2015, 5 (6), e008215–e008215, 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008215. [pdf]
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