Irene Xagoraraki

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Michigan State University

United States

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Dr. Irene Xagoraraki is a Professor at Michigan State University in the United States. Her research primarily focuses on wastewater surveillance, exploring bacterial and viral pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2 and Norovirus, through advanced sequencing and bioinformatic methods. Recent publications highlight her work on the implications of wastewater testing for public health, particularly in the Detroit area.

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Wastewater Surveillance at the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) and at Select Locations in Wayne, Macomb and Oakland Counties: SARS-CoV-2 and Variants

Open Date: 2021-01-01

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SARS-CoV-2 in Detroit: Surveillance and Prediction

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2022-01-01

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SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater for Prediction of COVID-19 Temporal and Spatial Fluctuations in Detroit City and Wayne, Macomb and Oakland Counties

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2021-01-01

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NSF EAGER: A Wastewater-Based-Epidemiology System for Early Detection of Viral Outbreaks in Detroit, MI

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2019-01-01

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Diversity and Abundance of Waterborne Viruses in Southwest Kampala-Uganda

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2018-01-01

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Wim Meijer

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Dublin City University

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Heather Murphy

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University of Guelph

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Kerry A. Hamilton

Arizona State University

UNITED STATES

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Andreas Farnleitner

Full professor (Water Quality and Health / Microbiological Diagnostics)

Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences

AUSTRIA

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Huiyun Wu

Assistant Professor

Washington State University

UNITED STATES

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Identifying potential bacterial pathogens in wastewater by expert reliability analysis of full-length 16S rRNA and untargeted RNA sequencing data processed with four bioinformatic workflows

Wastewater Surveillance of Salmonella enterica, Campylobacter jejuni, and Norovirus Reveals Potential Underreporting of Disease Cases in the Tri-county Detroit Area, Michigan

In-depth comparison of untargeted and targeted sequencing for detecting virus diversity in wastewater

SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Filters of University Lecture Rooms

Tracking Norovirus in Tri-County Detroit, MI, Using Wastewater Testing, Syndromic Data, and Online Publicly Available Sources

Tracking Chlamydia and Syphilis in the Detroit Metro Area by Molecular Analysis of Environmental Samples

Effect of wastewater collection and concentration methods on assessment of viral diversity

Tracking the Time Lag between SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Concentrations and Three COVID-19 Clinical Metrics: A 21-Month Case Study in the Tricounty Detroit Area, Michigan

Targeting a free viral fraction enhances the early alert potential of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2: a methods comparison spanning the transition between delta and omicron variants in a large urban center

Wastewater surveillance beyond COVID-19: a ranking system for communicable disease testing in the tri-county Detroit area, Michigan, USA

Simple methods for early warnings of COVID-19 surges: Lessons learned from 21 months of wastewater and clinical data collection in Detroit, Michigan, United States

Minimizing errors in RT-PCR detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance

Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in nine neighborhood sewersheds in Detroit Tri-County area, United States: Assessing per capita SARS-CoV-2 estimations and COVID-19 incidence

Five-week warning of COVID-19 peaks prior to the Omicron surge in Detroit, Michigan using wastewater surveillance

Assessment of enteric viruses during a hepatitis outbreak in Detroit MI using wastewater surveillance and metagenomic analysis

Early Warnings of COVID-19 Second Wave in Detroit

High abundance of human herpesvirus 8 in wastewater from a large urban area

Can We Predict Viral Outbreaks Using Wastewater Surveillance?

Collaborators (5)

Wim Meijer

Heather Murphy

Kerry A. Hamilton

Andreas Farnleitner

Huiyun Wu

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