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Van Vo

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Articles 22
Citations 153
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Related Specialties
General Medicine
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Top 10 Co-Authors
Edwin C Oh
Ching-Lan Chang
Daniel Gerrity
Hayley Baker
Katerina Papp
Anthony Harrington
Xiaowei Zhuang
Richard L Tillett
Nabih Ghani
Michael A Moshi
Published In
Sci Total Environ
JAMA Netw Open
Bioorg Med Chem
medRxiv
J Neurooncol
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Recent Articles
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Drug Use Patterns in Wastewater and Socioeconomic and Demographic Indicators
Zhuang X, Moshi M, Quinones O, Trenholm R, Chang C, Cordes D, et al.
JAMA Netw Open . 2024 Sep; 7(9):e2432682. PMID: 39312241
Importance: Measuring drug use behaviors in individuals and across large communities presents substantial challenges, often complicated by socioeconomic and demographic variables. Objectives: To detect spatial and temporal changes in community...
2.
Environmental Surveillance of Flood Control Infrastructure Impacted by Unsheltered Individuals Leads to the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and Novel Mutations in the Spike Gene
Harrington A, Vo V, Moshi M, Chang C, Baker H, Ghani N, et al.
Environ Sci Technol Lett . 2024 May; 11(5):410-417. PMID: 38752195
In the United States, the growing number of people experiencing homelessness has become a socioeconomic crisis with public health ramifications, recently exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesized that the...
3.
Early Detection of Novel SARS-CoV-2 Variants from Urban and Rural Wastewater through Genome Sequencing and Machine Learning
Zhuang X, Vo V, Moshi M, Dhede K, Ghani N, Akbar S, et al.
medRxiv . 2024 May; PMID: 38699326
Genome sequencing from wastewater has emerged as an accurate and cost-effective tool for identifying SARS-CoV-2 variants. However, existing methods for analyzing wastewater sequencing data are not designed to detect novel...
4.
Science Education for the Youth (SEFTY): A Neuroscience Outreach Program for High School Students in Southern Nevada during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ghani N, Baker H, Huntsinger A, Chen T, Familara T, Itorralba J, et al.
eNeuro . 2024 Mar; 11(4). PMID: 38527805
Laboratory outreach programs for K-12 students in the United States from 2020 to 2022 were suspended or delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions. While Southern Nevada also observed similar closures for...
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Science Education for the Youth (SEFTY): A Neuroscience Outreach Program for High School Students in Southern Nevada During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ghani N, Baker H, Huntsinger A, Chen T, Familara T, Itorralba J, et al.
bioRxiv . 2024 Feb; PMID: 38370644
Significance Statement: The Science Education for the Youth (SEFTY) program at UNLV successfully engaged 117 diverse high school students in neuroscience-based experiential learning, demonstrating the viability of in-person education during...
6.
Spatial and Temporal Drug Usage Patterns in Wastewater Correlate with Socioeconomic and Demographic Indicators in Southern Nevada
Zhuang X, Moshi M, Quinones O, Trenholm R, Chang C, Cordes D, et al.
medRxiv . 2024 Feb; PMID: 38352613
Evaluating drug use within populations in the United States poses significant challenges due to various social, ethical, and legal constraints, often impeding the collection of accurate and timely data. Here,...
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Detection of the Omicron BA.1 Variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater From a Las Vegas Tourist Area
Vo V, Tillett R, Papp K, Chang C, Harrington A, Moshi M, et al.
JAMA Netw Open . 2023 Feb; 6(2):e230550. PMID: 36821109
Importance: Interpretation of wastewater surveillance data is potentially confounded in communities with mobile populations, so it is important to account for this issue when conducting wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). Objectives: To...
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Identification and genome sequencing of an influenza H3N2 variant in wastewater from elementary schools during a surge of influenza A cases in Las Vegas, Nevada
Vo V, Harrington A, Chang C, Baker H, Moshi M, Ghani N, et al.
Sci Total Environ . 2023 Feb; 872:162058. PMID: 36758698
Real-time surveillance of infectious diseases at schools or in communities is often hampered by delays in reporting due to resource limitations and infrastructure issues. By incorporating quantitative PCR and genome...
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Identification of a rare SARS-CoV-2 XL hybrid variant in wastewater and the subsequent discovery of two infected individuals in Nevada
Vo V, Harrington A, Afzal S, Papp K, Chang C, Baker H, et al.
Sci Total Environ . 2022 Nov; 858(Pt 3):160024. PMID: 36356728
The identification of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants can predict new patterns of COVID-19 community transmission and lead to the deployment of public health resources. However, increased access to at-home antigen tests...
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Urban monitoring of antimicrobial resistance during a COVID-19 surge through wastewater surveillance
Harrington A, Vo V, Papp K, Tillett R, Chang C, Baker H, et al.
Sci Total Environ . 2022 Sep; 853:158577. PMID: 36087661
During the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, infected patients presented with symptoms similar to bacterial pneumonias and were treated with antibiotics before confirmation of a bacterial or fungal co-infection....