Publications

2011

1.   Markand, S., Bachoon, D., Gentit, L., Sherchan, S., and Gates, K., (2011) Evaluation of fecal contamination in Harris Neck Estuarine Marshes along the Georgia Coast, Marine Pollution Bulletin 62(1):178-181. 

2.  Sherchan, S.,  and  Bachoon,D., (2011) Rapid detection and quantification of atrazine degrading bacteria in Lake Oconee using Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 111(2):293-299. 

2013

3. Sherchan, S., Bachoon, D.,  Omero, E., and Ramsabhag, A., (2013) Molecular  detection of atrazine contamination in aquatic environment. Mar Pollut Bull, 69(1-2):215-8. 

4.   Sherchan,S., Gerba, C.,  and Pepper, I., (2013) Evaluation of real-time water quality sensors for the detection of intentional bacterial spore contamination of potable water,   Journal   of   Biosensors   and   Bioelectronics, 4:141-145

2014

5.  Sherchan, S., Snyder, S., Gerba, C.,  and Pepper, I., (2014) Inactivation of MS2 coliphage by UV and hydrogen peroxide: Comparison by cultural and molecular methodologies, Journal of Env. Sci and Health A, 49(4):397-403.

6. Sherchan, S., Snyder, S., Gerba, C.,  and Pepper, I.,  (2014) Online Monitoring  of  Escherichia  coli  and  Bacillus  thuringensis  spore  inactivation  after advanced oxidation treatment, Journal of Env. Sci and Health A, 49(8):933-939.

7.   Sherchan, S.,  Kitajima, M., Gerba, C.,  and Pepper, I., (2014) Rapid Detection Technologies for Monitoring Microorganisms in Water. Biosens J 3(1): 109-117.

2015

8.  Lopez, G.,  Kitajima, M., Sherchan, S.P., Sexton, J. D., Sifuentes, L.,  Gerba, C.,  Reynolds, K. A., (2015) Impact of disinfectant wipes on the risk of Campylobacter jejuni infection during raw chicken preparation in domestic kitchens. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 119(1):245 52. 

9.  Sherchan,S. P., (2015) Bacterial Source Tracking of Human Fecal Pollution Using Molecular Methodologies, EC Microbiology. 1(2): 59-63.

10. Zelezny, L., Fu, X., Harootunian, G., Drexler, D., Avalos, A., Chowdhury, N., Pasha, F., Sherchan, S., Therkelsen, J., Wang, C., Zoldoske, D., Green, S.,Edmonson, C. (2015). Impact of the Drought in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Fresno State University, Fresno, CA.

2016

11. Sherchan, S.,Pasha, F., Weinman, B., Nelson, F., Sharma, F., Therkelsen, J., Drexler, D.,   (2016) Seven Faculties in Search of a Mission: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Course in Water Literacy, Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 15(2):171-183.

12. Lichtveld, M., Sherchan, S., Gam, K.B., Kwok, R.K., Mundorf, C., Shankar, A., Soares, L., (2016) The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Through the Lens of Human Health and the Ecosystem. Curr Envir Health Rpt 3: 370. doi:10.1007/s40572-016-0119-7

13. Sherchand, S., Joshi, D., Adhikari, N., Poudel, R., Pant, K., K.C, M., Shrestha, D., Sherchan, S., (2016) Prevalence of Cryptosporidiosis among School Going Children in Kathmandu, Nepal. EC Microbiology 4.1: 641-646.

14. Pandey, S., Sherchand, S., Manandhar, P., Pokhrel, N., Globigs, A., Sherchan, S., (2016) Serological Surveillance of Avian Influenza Virus in Nepal. J Hum Virol Retrovirol, 4(1):00120.

15. Shrestha, D., Sherchand, S., Gurung, K., Manandhar, S., Shrestha, B., Sherchan, S., (2016) Prevalence of Multidrug Resistant Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase-Producing Bacteria from Different Clinical Specimens in Kathmandu Model Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. EC Microbiology 4.2: 676-698.

2017

16. Xue, J., Lin S., Lamar F., Lamori J., Sherchan S., (2017) Assessment of fecal pollution in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 129(2):655-663. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.053.  

17. Xue, J., Lamar F., Zhang, B., Lin S., Lamori J., Sherchan S., (2017) Quantitative assessment of Naegleria fowleri and fecal indicator bacteria in brackish water of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, Science of the Total Environment, 622-623C:8-16.

Book Chapter

1. Sherchan, S., (2017) Online monitoring of microorganisms in water using real-time sensors, Handbook of Online and Near-Real-Time Methods in Microorganism Detection (CRC Press) Edited by Prof. Maximilian Lackner (Page 161-169)

2018

18. Tandukar, S., Sherchand J., Xue, J., Uprety, S., Sherchan, S., Bhandari, D., Malla, B., Shrestha, R., Parajuli, L., Dhital, A., Haramoto, E., (2018) Prevalence and associated risk factors of Giardia lamblia infection among school going children in Nepal, Parasitology Research,117(1):287-293. 

19. Tandukar, S., Sherchand J.,  Bhandari, D., Sherchan, S., Malla, B., Shrestha, R.,  Haramoto, E., (2018) Presence of human enteric viruses, protozoa, and indicators of pathogens in the Bagmati River, Nepal. Pathogens. 7(2):38. 

20. Schmitz, B. W., Moriyama, H., Haramoto, E., Kitajima, M., Sherchan, S.,  Gerba, C. P., and Pepper, I.L., (2018) Reduction of Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and Fecal Indicators by Bardenpho Wastewater Treatment,Environmental Science & Technology 52 (12), 7015-7023. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05876 

21. Xue, J., Caton, K., Sherchan, S. P., (2018) Comparison of Next‐Generation Droplet Digital PCR with Quantitative PCR for Enumeration of Naegleria fowleri in Environmental water and Clinical Samples, Letters in Applied Microbiology, 67(4):322-328. doi: 10.1111/lam.13051 

22. Sherchan, S., Miles, S., Ikner, L., Yu, H.W, Snyder, S., and Pepper, I., (2018) Near Real-Time Detection of Escherichia coli in Reclaimed Water, Sensors, 18(7), 2303; doi: 10.3390/s18072303 

23. Uprety N, Rayamajhee B, Sherchan S, Choudhari M, Banjara M. (2018) Prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, multidrug resistant and extended spectrum β-lactamase producing gram negative bacilli causing wound infections at a tertiary care hospital of Nepal. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control. 7:121. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-018-0408-z 

2019

24. Lamori, J., Xue, J., Andri, R., Lopez, G., Kitajima, M., Gerba, C., Brooks, J., Pepper, I., Sherchan, S., (2019) Removal of fecal indicator bacteria and antibiotic resistant genes by constructed wetlands , Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019 Feb 13. doi: 10.1007/s11356-019-04468-9 

25.  Xue, J., Schmitz, B., Caton, K.,, Zhang, B., Zabeta, J., Garai, J., Taylor, C., Romanchishina, T., Gerba, C., Pepper, I., Sherchan, S., (2019) Assessing the spatial and temporal variability of microbial communities in two Bardenpho wastewater treatment systems via high-throughput sequencing, Science of the Total Environment, 657: 1543-1552. 

26. Isaac, T., Sherchan, S., (2019) Molecular detection of opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens in rural Louisiana's drinking water distribution system, Environmental Research, 108847.

27. Shrestha, R., Sherchan, S., Kitajima, M., Tanaka, Y., Gerba, C., Haramoto, E., (2019) Reduction of Arcobacter at two conventional wastewater treatment plants in Southern Arizona, USA ,  Pathogens, 8, 175.  

28. Shrestha, R.G.; Tandukar, S.; Bhandari, D.; Sherchan, S.P.; Tanaka, Y.; Sherchand, J.B.; Haramoto, E. (2019) Prevalence of Arcobacter and Other Pathogenic Bacteria in River Water in Nepal. Water, 11(7): 1416. 

29. Maharjan, S., Rayamajhee, B., Chhetri, V.S., Sherchan, S., Panta, O.P., karki, T.B., (2019) Microbial quality of poultry meat in an ISO 22000:2005 certified poultry processing plant of Kathmandu valley. International Journal of Food Contamination 6, 8 doi:10.1186/s40550-019-0078-5 

2020

30. Schmitz, B., Innes, G., Gerba. C., Pepper, I., Sherchan. S., (2020) Reduction of antibiotic resistant genes and class 1 integron-integrase in wastewater by Bardenpho treatment, Water Environment Research. 1-9.

31. Brabec, J., Wright, J., Ly, T., Wong, H.,  McClimans, C., Tokarev, V., Lamendella,R., Sherchand, S., Shrestha, D., Uprety, S., Dangol, B., Tandukar, S., Sherchand, J., Sherchan, S., (2020) Arsenic Disturbs the Gut Microbiome of a Disadvantaged Community in Nepal, Heliyon, 6(1):e03313.  

32. Thakali, O., Tandukar, S., Brooks, J.P., Sherchan, S., Sherchand, J.B., Haramoto, E., (2020) The Occurrence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in an Urban River in Nepal , Water , 12(2):450. 

33. Phan, N.K.; Sherchan, S.P. , (2020) Microbiological Assessment of Tap Water Following the 2016 Louisiana Flooding. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health , 17, 1273. 

34. Tandukar, S., Sherchan, S., Haramoto, E., (2020) Applicability of crAssphage, pepper mild mottle, and tobacco mosaic virus as indicators of reduction of enteric viruses during wastewater treatment , Scientific Reports,  10(1): 1-8.

35. Uprety, S., Dangol, B., Nakarmi, P., Dhakal, I., Sherchan, S., Shisler, J., Jutla, A.S., Amarasiri, M., Sano, D., Nguyen, T., (2020) Assessment of microbial risks by characterization of Escherichia coli presence to analyze the public health risks from poor water quality in Nepal, International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health , 226: 113484.

36. Xue, J., Zhang, B., Lamori, J., Shah, K., Zabeta, J., Garai, J., Taylor, C., Sherchan, S., (2020) Molecular detection of Legionella spp., Mycobacterium spp. and Naegleria fowleri and insights into microbial diversity in groundwater in New Orleans, Louisiana , Journal of water and health, jwh2020271. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2020.271 PubMed PMID: 33095203; PubMed Central PMCID: wh_2020_271 

37.  Ward, L.M., Ghaju Shrestha, R., Tandukar, S. et al. Evaluation of CrAssphage Marker for Tracking Fecal Contamination in River Water in Nepal. Water Air Soil Pollut 231, 282 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-020-04648-1 

38. Seyran M, Pizzol D, Adadi P, Sherchan, S., et al. (2020) Questions concerning the proximal origin of SARSCoV-2 [published online ahead of print, 2020 Sep 3]. J Med Virol. 2020;10.1002/jmv.26478. doi:10.1002/ jmv.26478. PubMed PMID: 32880995. 

39. Thakali, O.; Brooks, J.P.; Shahin, S.; Sherchan, S.P.; Haramoto, E. Removal of Antibiotic Resistance Genes at Two Conventional Wastewater Treatment Plants of Louisiana, USA. Water 2020, 12, 1729. 

40. Sherchan, S.P., S. Shahin, L.M. Ward, et al., First detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater in North America: A study in Louisiana, USA, Science of the Total Environment (2020), 743: 140621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140621 

41. Ahmed W, Bertsch PM, Bibby K, Sherchan, S., et al. (2020) Decay of SARS-CoV-2 and surrogate murine hepatitis virus RNA in untreated wastewater to inform application in wastewater-based epidemiology [published online ahead of print, 2020 Aug 27]. Environ Res.;110092. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2020.110092 PubMed PMID: 32861728.

42. Gupta R, Rayamajhee B, Sherchan S., et al. (2020) Prevalence of intestinal parasitosis and associated risk factors among school children of Saptari district, Nepal: a cross-sectional study. Trop Med Health. 48:73. Published 2020 Aug 24. doi:10.1186/s41182-020-00261-4. PubMed PMID: 32848503. 

43. Tandukar, S., Sherchan, S.P. & Haramoto, E. Reduction of Pathogenic and Indicator Viruses at a Drinking Water Treatment Plant in Southern Louisiana, USA. Food Environ Virol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-020-09436-y

44. Tandukar, S., Sherchan, S.P., Haramoto, E., (2020) Reduction of human enteric and indicator viruses at a wastewater treatment plant in the United States, Food Environ Virol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-020-09433-1 

45. Lundstrom K, Seyran M, Pizzol D, Adadi P, Mohamed Abd El-Aziz T, Hassan SS, Soares A, Kandimalla R, Tambuwala MM, Aljabali AAA, Kumar Azad G, Pal Choudhury P, Uversky VN, Sherchan S., Uhal BD, Rezaei N, Brufsky AM. (2020) Viewpoint: Origin of SARS-CoV-2. Viruses.12(11):1203. doi: 10.3390/v12111203. 

46. Maal-Bared R, Brisolara K, Munakata N, Bibby K, Gerba C, Sobsey M, Schaefer S, Swift J, Gary L, Sherchan S., Babatola A, Bastian R, Olabode L, Reimers R, Rubin A. (2020) Implications of SARS-CoV-2 on current and future operation and management of wastewater systems. Water Environ Res. doi: 10.1002/wer.1446. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32866312. 

47. Hassan SS, Ghosh S, Attrish D, Choudhury PP, Aljabali AAA, Uhal BD, Lundstrom K, Rezaei N, Uversky VN, Seyran M, Pizzol D, Adadi P, Soares A, El-Aziz TMA, Kandimalla R, Tambuwala MM, Azad GK, Sherchan S., Baetas-da-Cruz W, Takayama K, Serrano-Aroca Á, Chauhan G, Palu G, Brufsky AM. (2020) Possible Transmission Flow of SARS-CoV-2 Based on ACE2 Features. Molecules. 25(24):5906. doi: 10.3390/molecules25245906. 

48. Seyran M, Takayama K, Uversky VN, Lundstrom K, Palù G, Sherchan S., Attrish D, Rezaei N, Aljabali AAA, Ghosh S, Pizzol D, Chauhan G, Adadi P, Mohamed Abd El-Aziz T, Soares AG, Kandimalla R, Tambuwala M, Hassan SS, Azad GK, Pal Choudhury P, Baetas-da-Cruz W, Serrano-Aroca Á, Brufsky AM, Uhal BD. (2020) The structural basis of accelerated host cell entry by SARS-CoV-2†. FEBS J. 10.1111/febs.15651. doi: 10.1111/febs.15651. Epub ahead of print. 

49. Maal-Bared R, Sobsey M, Bibby K, Sherchan S., Fitzmorris KB, Munakata N, Gerba C, Schaefer S, Swift J, Gary L, Babatola A, Bastian R, Olabode L, Reimers R, Rubin A, Kester G, Casson L. Letter to the Editor regarding Mathavarajah et al. (2020) Pandemic danger to the deep: The risk of marine mammals contracting SARS-CoV2 from wastewater. Sci Total Environ. 144855. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144855. Epub ahead of print. 

50. Wilson MJ, Aw TG, Sherchan S, Wickliffe J, Murphy SA. The Environmental Health and Emergency Preparedness Impacts of Hurricane Katrina. Am J Public Health. 2020 Oct;110(10):1476-1477. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305819. PMID: 32903082; PMCID: PMC7483088.

51. Lundstrom K, Seyran M, Pizzol D, Adadi P, Mohamed Abd El-Aziz T, Hassan SS, Soares A, Kandimalla R, Tambuwala MM, Aljabali AAA, Kumar Azad G, Pal Choudhury P, Uversky VN, Sherchan SP, Uhal BD, Rezaei N, Brufsky AM. The Importance of Research on the Origin of SARS-CoV-2. Viruses. 2020; 12(11):1203. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12111203

2021

52. Tandukar, S.; Khanal, R.; Manandhar, R.; Pandey, A.; Sthapit, N.; Sherchan, S.P.; Haramoto, E. (2021) Possibility of Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) through Wastewater in Developing Countries. Water, 13, 3412. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233412

53.  Pan K, Beitsch L, Gonsoroski E, Sherchan S., Uejio CK, Lichtveld MY, Harville EW. (2021) Effects of Hurricane Michael on Access to Care for Pregnant Women and Associated Pregnancy Outcomes. Int J Environ Res Public Health.18(2):390. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18020390. PMID: 33419129. 

54. Betancourt, W., Schmitz, B.W., Innes, G. Prasek, S., Brown, K., Stark, E., Foster, A., Sprissler, R., Harris, D., Sherchan, S., , Gerba, C., Pepper, I. (2021). COVID-19 containment on a college campus via wastewater-based epidemiology, targeted clinical testing and an intervention. Science of the Total Environment, 779: 146408. 

55. Seyran M, Hassan SS, Uversky VN, Pal Choudhury P, Uhal BD, Lundstrom K, Attrish D, Rezaei N, Aljabali AAA, Ghosh S, Pizzol D, Adadi P, El-Aziz TMA, Kandimalla R, Tambuwala MM, Lal A, Azad GK, Sherchan SP, Baetas-da-Cruz W, Palù G, Brufsky AM. Urgent Need for Field Surveys of Coronaviruses in Southeast Asia to Understand the SARS-CoV-2 Phylogeny and Risk Assessment for Future Outbreaks. Biomolecules. 2021; 11(3):398. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11030398

56. Harris-Lovett, S., Nelson, K. L., Beamer, P., Bischel, H. N., Bivins, A., Bruder, A., Butler, C., Camenisch, T. D., De Long, S. K., Karthikeyan, S., Larsen, D. A., Meierdiercks, K., Mouser, P. J., Pagsuyoin, S., Prasek, S. M., Radniecki, T. S., Ram, J. L., Roper, D. K., Safford, H., Sherchan, S. P., … Korfmacher, K. S. (2021). Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 on College Campuses: Initial Efforts, Lessons Learned, and Research Needs. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(9), 4455. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094455

57. Hassan SS, Attrish D, Ghosh S, Choudhury PP, Uversky VN, Aljabali AAA, Lundstrom K, Uhal BD, Rezaei N, Seyran M, Pizzol D, Adadi P, Soares A, Abd El-Aziz TM, Kandimalla R, Tambuwala MM, Azad GK, Sherchan SP, Baetas-da-Cruz W, Lal A, Palù G, Takayama K, Serrano-Aroca Á, Barh D, Brufsky AM. Notable sequence homology of the ORF10 protein introspects the architecture of SARS-CoV-2. Int J Biol Macromol. 2021 Apr 16;181:801-809. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.03.199. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33862077; PMCID: PMC8051021. 

58. Hassan SS, Aljabali AAA, Panda PK, Ghosh S, Attrish D, Choudhury PP, Seyran M, Pizzol D, Adadi P, Abd El-Aziz TM, Soares A, Kandimalla R, Lundstrom K, Lal A, Azad GK, Uversky VN, Sherchan SP, Baetas-da-Cruz W, Uhal BD, Rezaei N, Chauhan G, Barh D, Redwan EM, Dayhoff GW 2nd, Bazan NG, Serrano-Aroca Á, El-Demerdash A, Mishra YK, Palu G, Takayama K, Brufsky AM, Tambuwala MM. A unique view of SARS-COV-2 through the lens of ORF8 protein. Comput Biol Med. 2021 Apr 15;133:104380. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104380. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33872970. 

59. Serrano-Aroca Á, Takayama K, Tuñón-Molina A, Seyran M, Hassan SS, Pal Choudhury P, Uversky VN, Lundstrom K, Adadi P, Palù G, Aljabali AAA, Chauhan G, Kandimalla R, Tambuwala MM, Lal A, Abd El-Aziz TM, Sherchan S, Barh D, Redwan EM, Bazan NG, Mishra YK, Uhal BD, Brufsky A. Carbon-Based Nanomaterials: Promising Antiviral Agents to Combat COVID-19 in the Microbial-Resistant Era. ACS Nano. 2021 Apr 7:acsnano.1c00629. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c00629. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33826850; PMCID: PMC8043205. 

60. Ahmed, W.; Simpson, S.; Bertsch, P.; Bibby, K.; Bivins, A.; Blackall, L.; Bofill-Mas, S.; Bosch, A.; Brandao, J.; Choi, P.; Ciesielski, M.; Donner, E.; D'Souza, N.; Farnleitner, A.; Gerrity, D.; Gonzalez, R.; Griffith, J.; Gyawali, P.; Haas, C.; Hamilton, K.; Hapuarachchi, C.; Harwood, V.; Haque, R.; Jackson, G.; Khan, S.; Khan, W.; Kitajima, M.; Korajkic, A.; La Rosa, G.; Layton, B.; Lipp, E.; McLellan, S.; McMinn, B.; Medema, G.; Metcalfe, S.; Meijer, W.; Mueller, J.; Murphy, H.; Naughton, C.; Noble, R.; Payyappat, S.; Petterson, S.; Pitkanen, T.; Rajal, V.; Reyneke, B.; Roman, F.; Rose, J.; Rusinol, M.; Sadowsky, M.; Sala-Comorera, L.; Setoh, Y.X.; Sherchan, S.; Sirikanchana, K.; Smith, W.; Steele, J.; Sabburg, R.; Symonds, E.; Thai, P.; Thomas, K.; Tynan, J.; Toze, S.; Thompson, J.; Whiteley, A.; Wong, J.; Sano, D.; Wuertz, S.; Xagoraraki, I.; Zhang, Q.; Zimmer-Faust, A.; Shanks, O. Minimizing Errors in RT-PCR Detection and Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for Wastewater Surveillance. Preprints 2021, 2021040481 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202104.0481.v1).

61. Redwan, E. M., Alghamdi, M. F., El-Aziz, T., Adadi, P., Aljabali, A., Attrish, D., Azad, G. K., Baetas-da-Cruz, W., Barh, D., Bazan, N. G., Brufsky, A. M., Chauhan, G., Hassan, S., Kandimalla, R., Lal, A., Lundstrom, K., Mishra, Y. K., Choudhury, P. P., Palù, G., Panda, P. K., … Uversky, V. N. (2021). The mechanism behind flaring/triggering of autoimmunity disorders associated with COVID-19. Autoimmunity reviews, 20(10), 102909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autrev.2021.102909

62. Hassan, S. S., Lundstrom, K., Barh, D., Silva, R., Andrade, B. S., Azevedo, V., Choudhury, P. P., Palu, G., Uhal, B. D., Kandimalla, R., Seyran, M., Lal, A., Sherchan, S. P., Azad, G. K., Aljabali, A., Brufsky, A. M., Serrano-Aroca, Á., Adadi, P., Abd El-Aziz, T. M., Redwan, E. M., … Uversky, V. N. (2021). Implications derived from S-protein variants of SARS-CoV-2 from six continents. International journal of biological macromolecules, 191, 934–955. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.09.080

63. Tiwari, A., Phan, N., Tandukar, S., Ashoori, R., Thakali, O., Mousazadesh, M., Dehghani, M. H., & Sherchan, S. P. (2021). Persistence and occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in water and wastewater environments: a review of the current literature. Environmental science and pollution research international, 1–11. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-16919-3

64. Mousazadeh, M., Ashoori, R., Paital, B., Kabdaşlı, I., Frontistis, Z., Hashemi, M., Sandoval, M. A., Sherchan, S., Das, K., & Emamjomeh, M. M. (2021). Wastewater Based Epidemiology Perspective as a Faster Protocol for Detecting Coronavirus RNA in Human Populations: A Review with Specific Reference to SARS-CoV-2 Virus. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 10(8), 1008. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10081008

65. Tandukar, S., Shrestha, R.G.,  Malla, B.,  Sthapit, N.,  Sherchand, J.B.,  Sherchan, S.P.,  Haramoto, E. (2021) Virus reduction at wastewater treatment plants in Nepal. Environmental Challenges. 5:100281. DOI: 10.1016/j.envc.2021.100281

66. Shrestha, D., Shrestha, R., Sherchand, S., Sherchan, S., Hendriksen, R., Bhatta-Sharma, L., & Bhatta, D. (2020). Identification of CCR5 Δ32 Allele in Different Ethnic Groups of Nepal. Nepal Medical College Journal, 22(3), 153–157. https://doi.org/10.3126/nmcj.v22i3.32643

67. Tandukar S, Bhandari D, Shrestha RG, Sherchan SP, Aryal A. (2021) Association between climatic and nonclimatic parameters and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Nepal. Environ Dis;6:38-44

68. Harville, E. W., Beitsch, L., Uejio, C. K., Sherchan, S., & Lichtveld, M. Y. (2021). Assessing the effects of disasters and their aftermath on pregnancy and infant outcomes: A conceptual model. International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR, 62, 102415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102415

69. Sherchan, S. P., Shahin, S., Patel, J., Ward, L. M., Tandukar, S., Uprety, S., Schmitz, B. W., Ahmed, W., Simpson, S., & Gyawali, P. (2021). Occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Six Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants at the Early Stage of COVID-19 Pandemic in The United States. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 10(7), 798. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10070798

70. Elrashdy, F., Tambuwala, M. M., Hassan, S. S., Adadi, P., Seyran, M., Abd El-Aziz, T. M., Rezaei, N., Lal, A., Aljabali, A., Kandimalla, R., Bazan, N. G., Azad, G. K., Sherchan, S. P., Choudhury, P. P., Serrano-Aroca, Á., Takayama, K., Chauhan, G., Pizzol, D., Barh, D., Panda, P. K., … Uversky, V. N. (2021). Autoimmunity roots of the thrombotic events after COVID-19 vaccination. Autoimmunity reviews, 20(11), 102941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autrev.2021.102941

71. Lundstrom, K., Barh, D., Uhal, B. D., Takayama, K., Aljabali, A., Abd El-Aziz, T. M., Lal, A., Redwan, E. M., Adadi, P., Chauhan, G., Sherchan, S. P., Azad, G. K., Rezaei, N., Serrano-Aroca, Á., Bazan, N. G., Hassan, S. S., Panda, P. K., Pal Choudhury, P., Pizzol, D., Kandimalla, R., … Uversky, V. N. (2021). COVID-19 Vaccines and Thrombosis-Roadblock or Dead-End Street?. Biomolecules, 11(7), 1020. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11071020

72. Shrestha S, Thakali O, Raya S, Sherchan S, Shrestha L, Parajuli K, Sherchand JB. Circulating Genotypes of Rotavirus Prior to Rotarix?vaccine Introduction in Kathmandu, Nepal. J Nepal Health Res Counc. 2021 Dec 14;19(3):508-512. doi: 10.33314/jnhrc.v19i3.3512. PMID: 35140423.

73. Tiwari, A., Oliver, D. M., Bivins, A., Sherchan, S. P., & Pitkänen, T. (2021). Bathing Water Quality Monitoring Practices in Europe and the United States. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(11), 5513. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115513

74. Ahmed W, Bivins A, Bertsch PM, Bibby K, Gyawali P, Sherchan S., Simpson SL, Thomas KV, Verhagen R, Kitajima M, Mueller JF, Korajkic A. (2021) Intraday variability of indicator and pathogenic viruses in 1-h and 24-h composite wastewater samples: Implications for wastewater-based epidemiology. Environ Res. 193:110531. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110531. 

2022

75. Hassan, S. S., Lundstrom, K., Serrano-Aroca, Á., Adadi, P., Aljabali, A., Redwan, E. M., Lal, A., Kandimalla, R., El-Aziz, T., Pal Choudhury, P., Azad, G. K., Sherchan, S. P., Chauhan, G., Tambuwala, M., Takayama, K., Barh, D., Palu, G., Basu, P., & Uversky, V. N. (2022). Emergence of unique SARS-CoV-2 ORF10 variants and their impact on protein structure and function. International journal of biological macromolecules, 194, 128–143. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.11.151

76. Shahin, S. A., Keevy, H., Dada, A. C., Gyawali, P., & Sherchan, S. P. (2022). Incidence of human associated HF183 Bacteroides marker and E. coli levels in New Orleans Canals. The Science of the total environment, 806(Pt 1), 150356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150356

77. Hassan, S. S., Basu, P., Redwan, E. M., Lundstrom, K., Choudhury, P. P., Serrano-Aroca, A., Azad, G. K., Aljabali, A., Palu, G., El-Aziz, T., Barh, D., Uhal, B. D., Adadi, P., Takayama, K., Bazan, N. G., Tambuwala, M., Lal, A., Chauhan, G., Baetas-da-Cruz, W., Sherchan, S. P., … Uversky, V. N. (2022). Periodically aperiodic pattern of SARS-CoV-2 mutations underpins the uncertainty of its origin and evolution. Environmental research, 204, 112092. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112092 

78. Shi, J., Li, X., Zhang, S., Sharma, E., Sivakumar, M., Sherchan, S. P., & Jiang, G. (2021). Enhanced decay of coronaviruses in sewers with domestic wastewater. The Science of the total environment, 151919. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151919

79. Hassan SS, Choudhury PP, Dayhoff GW 2nd, Aljabali AAA, Uhal BD, Lundstrom K, Rezaei N, Pizzol D, Adadi P, Lal A, Soares A, Mohamed Abd El-Aziz T, Brufsky AM, Azad GK, Sherchan SP, Baetas-da-Cruz W, Takayama K, Serrano-Aroca Ã, Chauhan G, Palu G, Mishra YK, Barh D, Santana Silva RJ, Andrade BS, Azevedo V, Góes-Neto A, Bazan NG, Redwan EM, Tambuwala M, Uversky VN. The importance of accessory protein variants in the pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2022 Mar 15;717:109124. doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2022.109124. Epub 2022 Jan 24. PMID: 35085577; PMCID: PMC8785432.

80. Tandukar S, Sthapit N, Thakali O, Malla B, Sherchan SP, Shakya BM, Shrestha LP, Sherchand JB, Joshi DR, Lama B, Haramoto E. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater, river water, and hospital wastewater of Nepal. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Feb 11;824:153816. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153816. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35157870; PMCID: PMC8832950.

81. Thakali, O., Malla, B., Raya, S., Sthapit, N., Sherchan, S.P., Furukawa, T., Sei, K., Sherchand, J.B., Haramoto, E., (2022) Prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in drinking water sources of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Environmental Challenges. 7:100527. DOI: 10.1016/j.envc.2022.100527

82. Li, X., Zhang, S., Sherchan, S., Orive, G., Lertxundi, U., Haramoto, E., Honda, R., Kumar, M., Arora, S., Kitajima, M., & Jiang, G. (2023). Correlation between SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentration in wastewater and COVID-19 cases in community: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of hazardous materials, 441, 129848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129848

83. Li, X., Kulandaivelu, J., Guo, Y., Zhang, S., Shi, J., O'Brien, J., Luby, S., Jackson, G., Sherchan, S., Honda, R., Arora, S., Kumar, M., Jiang, G., (2022) Potential role of sputum as a major SARS-CoV-2 virus shedding source in wastewater and implications for wastewater-based epidemiology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Available online 10 March 2022, 128667

84.  Shahin, S., Brosky, H, Alarcon, J., Dada, A.C., Lamori, J., Xue, J., Sherchan, S., (2022) Occurrence of Naegleria fowleri and fecal indicators in sediments from Lake Pontchartrain, J Water Health, jwh2022285. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2022.285

85. Shahin, S.,Brosky, H., Alarcon, J., Dada, A.C., Potter, C., Xue, J., Sherchan, S., (2022) Microbial Source Tracking of fecal contamination in stormwater runoff, J Water Health, jwh2022286. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2022.286

86. Harville, E., Pan, K., Beitsch, L., Sherchan, S., Gonsoroski, E., Uejio, C., & Lichtveld, M. (2022). Hurricane Michael and Adverse Birth Outcomes in the Florida Panhandle: Analysis of Vital Statistics Data. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 1-8. doi:10.1017/dmp.2021.367

87. Uejio, C., Gonsoroski, E., Sherchan, S., Beitsch, L., Harville, E.W., Blackmore, C., Pan, K., Lichtveld. M., Harmful algal bloom-related 311 calls, Cape Coral, Florida 2018–2019. J Water Health 2022; jwh2022257. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2022.257

88. Tiwari, A., Ahmed, W., Heikinheimo A., Sherchan. S., , Oikarinen, S., Jiang G., Greaves, J., Bivins A., (2022) Application of digital PCR for public health-related water quality, Science of The Total Environment, 837, 155663.

89. Jiang SC, Bischel HN, Goel R, Rosso D, Sherchan SP, Whiteson KL, Yan T, Solo-Gabriele HM. Integrating Virus Monitoring Strategies for Safe Non-Potable Water Reuse. Water. 2022; 14(8):1187. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14081187

90. Bivins, A., Kaya, D., Ahmed, W., Brown, J., Butler, C., Greaves, J., Leal, R., Maas, K., Rao, G., Sherchan, S., Sills, D., Sinclair, R., Wheeler, R. T., & Mansfeldt, C. (2022). Passive sampling to scale wastewater surveillance of infectious disease: Lessons learned from COVID-19. The Science of the total environment, 835, 155347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155347

91. Jiang, G., Wu, J., Weidhaas, J., Li, X., Chen, Y., Mueller, J., Li, J., Kumar, M., Zhou, X., Arora, S., Haramoto, E., Sherchan, S., Orive, G., Lertxundi, U., Honda, R., Kitajima, M., & Jackson, G. (2022). Artificial neural network-based estimation of COVID-19 case numbers and effective reproduction rate using wastewater-based epidemiology. Water research, 218, 118451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118451

92. Thakali, O., Raya, S., Malla, B., Tandukar, S., Tiwari, A., Sherchand, J.B., Sherchan, S., Haramoto, E., (2022) First attempt on wastewater surveillance of Dengue virus RNA: Lessons, challenges, and their implications for future research, Environmental Challenges, 

93.  Sharma, E., Tiwari, A., Sherchan S., Jiang, G., (2022) Reduction of SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentration in the presence of sewer biofilms, Science of the Total Environment

94. Islam, M.A.; Sangkham, S.; Tiwari, A.; Vadiati, M.; Hasan, M.N.; Noor, S.T.A.; Mumin, J.; Bhattacharya, P.; Sherchan, S.P. (2022) Association between Global Monkeypox Cases and Meteorological Factors. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 19, 15638. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315638

95. Pan K, Gonsoroski E, Uejio CK, Beitsch L, Sherchan SP, Lichtveld MY, Harville EW. Remotely sensed measures of Hurricane Michael damage and adverse perinatal outcomes and access to prenatal care services in the Florida panhandle. Environ Health. 2022 Nov 29;21(1):118. doi: 10.1186/s12940-022-00924-1. PMID: 36447282.

96. Maal-Bared R, Gerba C, Bibby K, Munakata N, Mehrota, A., Brisolara K, Haas, C., Gary, L., Nayak, B., Swift J, Sherchan S., Casson, L., Olabode L, Schaefer S,Babatola A, Bastian R, Reimers R, Rubin A. Sobsey M, (2022) The Current Multi-Country Monkeypox Outbreak: what the water professional should know. EST Water 2022, 2, 10, 1628–1638

2023

97. Tiwari, A., Adhikari, S., Kaya, D., Islam, M. A., Malla, B., Sherchan, S. P., Al-Mustapha, A. I., Kumar, M., Aggarwal, S., Bhattacharya, P., Bibby, K., Halden, R. U., Bivins, A., Haramoto, E., Oikarinen, S., Heikinheimo, A., & Pitkänen, T. (2023). Monkeypox outbreak: Wastewater and environmental surveillance perspective. The Science of the total environment, 856(Pt 2), 159166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159166

98.  Harville, E., Pan, K., Beitsch, L. Ueijo, C., Lichtveld, M., Sherchan, S.P., Timuta, C., Hurricane Michael and Adverse Social and Mental Health Risk Factors. Matern Child Health J (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-023-03596-6

99. Tiwari A, Adhikari S, Zhang S, Solomon TB, Lipponen A, Islam MA, Thakali O, Sangkham S, Shaheen MNF, Jiang G, Haramoto E, Mazumder P, Malla B, Kumar M, Pitkänen T, Sherchan SP. Tracing COVID-19 Trails in Wastewater: A Systematic Review of SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance with Viral Variants. Water. 2023; 15(6):1018. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15061018

100. Uprety, S., Sherchan, S. P., Narayanan, P., Dangol, B., Maggos, M., Celmer, A., Shisler, J., Amarasiri, M., Sano, D., & Nguyen, T. H. (2023). Microbial assessment of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) in temporary and permanent settlements two years after Nepal 2015 earthquake. The Science of the total environment, 877, 162867. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162867

101. Josh Alarcon, J., Ward, L., Pan, K., Gonsoroski, E., Uejio, C., Beitsch, L., Lichtveld, M., Harville, E., Sherchan, S., HABs Karenia brevis and Pseudo-nitzschia pre- and post-Hurricane Michael. J Water Health 2023; jwh2023302. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2023.302

102. Sherchan, S., Thakali, O., Ikner, L. A., & Gerba, C. P. (2023). Survival of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. The Science of the total environment, 163049. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163049

103. Li, X., Liu, H., Gao, L., Sherchan, S., ZHou, T., Khan, S., Loosdrecht, M., Wang, X., (2023) Wastewater-based epidemiology predicts COVID-19- induced hospital and ICU admission numbers in over 100 USA counties, Nature Communications, 14, 4548 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40305-x

104. Sherchan S.P., Malla, B., Haramoto E., (2023) First quantification detection of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus in wastewater in Louisiana, STOTEN, 164001.

105. Sherchan, S.P.,  Solomon, T., Idris, O., Nwaubani, D., Thakali, O., (2023) Wastewater surveillance of Mpox virus in Baltimore, STOTEN,164414

106. Zhang S, Sharma E, Tiwari A, Chen Y, Sherchan SP, Gao S, Zhou X, Shi J, Jiang G. The Reduction of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Concentration in the Presence of Sewer Biofilms. Water. 2023; 15(11):2132. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15112132

107. Gonsoroski, E., Ahn, Y., Harville, E., Countess, N. ,Lictveld, M., Pan, K., Beitsch, L., Sherchan S., Uejio, C., (2023) Classifying Building Roof Damage Using High resolution Imagery for Disaster Recovery, Photogrammetric Engineering and remote Sensing, 89(7): 437-443. 

108. Sherchan, S., Ikner, L., Gerba, C., (2023) Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 in water by chlorination, Food and Environmental Virology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-023-09559-y

109. Ward, L., Sherchan, S., (2023) Surveillance of Naegleria fowleri in Louisiana's public water systems, Journal of Water and Health, jwh2023040

110. Sherchan, S., Thakali, O., Ikner, L., Haramoto, E., Gerba, C., (2023) Persistence of Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, Water Research, Accepted

Thakali, O, Shahin, S.,., Sherchan, S., (2023) SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance in high risk areas, Water

Tandukar. S., Shah, S.R., Raya, S., Thakali, O.,  Sherchan, S., Bhandari, D.,  Sherchand, J.B., Gyawali, P., (2023)  Comparison of qPCR method with microscopy for the detection of Giardia duodenalis , Under Review, 

Sherchan, S., Shahin S., Tandukar S, Thakali O, Tuladhar, R.,, Shakya BM, Haramoto, E., Joshi DR, (2023) Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater, Sci Total Environ

Thakali, O., TatahMentan, M.,* Uprety, S., Sherchan, S.^, (2023) Assessing Household Water Quality in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal post 2015 earthquake, In preparation 

Ward, L.*, Izawa, M., Motooka, D., Sakon, N., Okabe, S., Kitajima, M., Sherchan, S.^, (2023) Detection and Molecular Characterization of Norovirus in Wastewater in New Orleans, In preparation 

Cormack,R., Zabeta, J., Garai, J., Taylor, C., Sherchan, S., (2023) Microbial diversity in a full scale wastewater treatment plant, In preparation 

 Tandukar, S., Schmitz, B., Innes, G., Gerba. C., Pepper, I., Sherchan. S., (2023) Abundance of crAssphage in raw sewage in wastewater treatment plants, In preparation 

Ritten, B., Zabeta, J., Garai, J., Taylor, C., Sherchan, S., (2023) Microbial diversity in a full scale wastewater treatment plant revealed by Illumina sequencing, In preparation