Fuhrmeister Group Publications
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2025
Cotto, I.2; Alban, V.; Durán-Viseras, A.; Jesser, K.J.; Zhou, N.; Hemlock, C.; Ballard, A.; Fagnant-Sperati, C.; Lee, G.; Hatt, J.; Royer, C.; Eisenberg, J.N.S.; Trueba, G.; Konstantinidis, K.T.; Levy, K.*; Fuhrmeister, E.R.* Environmental exposures associated with the gut microbiome and resistome of pregnant women and children in Northwest Ecuador. Nat Commun 2025, 17 (1), 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66567-1.
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Kim, S.; Garcia, D.; McCormack, C.; Tham, R. X.; O’Brien, M. E.; Fuhrmeister, E. R.; Nelson, K. L.; Kantor, R. S.; Pickering, A. J. Solid Evidence and Liquid Gold: Trade-Offs of Processing Settled Solids, Whole Influent, or Centrifuged Influent for Codetecting Viral, Bacterial, and Eukaryotic Pathogens in Wastewater. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2025, 59 (31), 16240–16249. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c02869
Fuhrmeister, E. R.; Kim, S.; Mairal, S. A.; McCormack, C.; Chieng, B.; Swarthout, J. M.; Paulos, A. H.; Njenga, S. M.; Pickering, A. J. Context-Seq: CRISPR-Cas9 Targeted Nanopore Sequencing for Transmission Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance. Nat Commun 2025, 16 (1), 5898. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60491-0
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Kawabe, H.; Manfio, L.; Pena, S. M.; Zhou, N. A.; Bradley, K. M.; Chen, C.; McLendon, C.; Benner, S. A.; Levy, K.; Yang, Z.; Marchand, J. A.; Fuhrmeister, E. R. Harnessing Non-standard Nucleic Acids for Highly Sensitive Icosaplex (20-Plex) Detection of Microbial Threats for Environmental Surveillance. ACS Synthetic Biology. 2025 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.4c00619
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Cassel, S.1; Fenelon, H. T.; Rott, E.1; Blazes, L.; Willess, L. M.; Baines, A. E.; Ramirez, V.; Kauber, K.; Rabinowitz, P.; Burbick, C. R.; Fuhrmeister, E. R. Antimicrobial Prescription Practices and Stewardship in Washington State Small and Mixed Animal Veterinary Medicine. Zoonoses and Public Health 2025, 72 (2), 117–126. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.13187
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2024
Ong, A. Q.; Philo, S. E.; Taylor, A.; Hu, R.; Meschke, J. S.; Fuhrmeister, E. R. Targeted Sequencing of CTX-M Alleles Encoding for Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases in Seattle Area Wastewater. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00653.
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Philo, S. E.; Monteiro, S.; Fuhrmeister, E. R.; Santos, R.; Meschke, J. S. Wastewater Surveillance for Antibiotic Resistance Genes during the Late 2020 SARS-CoV-2 Peak in Two Different Populations. Journal of Water and Health 2024, jwh2024161. https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2024.161
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Mertens, A.; Arnold, B. F.; Benjamin-Chung, J.; Boehm, A. B.; Brown, J.; Capone, D.; Clasen, T.; Fuhrmeister, E. R.; Grembi, J. A.; Holcomb, D. Is Detection of Enteropathogens and Human or Animal Faecal Markers in the Environment Associated with Subsequent Child Enteric Infections and Growth: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. The Lancet Global Health 2024, 12 (3), e433–e444. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00563-6
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Jewell, M.; Fuhrmeister, E. R.; Roberts, M. C.; Weissman, S. J.; Rabinowitz, P. M.; Hawes, S. E. Associations between Isolation Source, Clonal Composition, and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Escherichia Coli Collected in Washington State, USA. Antibiotics2024, 13 (1), 103. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics13010103
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Bliss SS, Abraha EA, Fuhrmeister ER, Pickering AJ, Bascom-Slack CA. Learning and STEM identity gains from an online module on sequencing-based surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in the environment: An analysis of the PARE-Seq curriculum. PLoS One. 2023 Mar 10;18(3):e0282412.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282412.
PMID: 36897842; PMCID: PMC10004520.
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Fuhrmeister, E.R.; Harvey, A. P.; Nadimpalli, M. L.; Gallandat, K.; Ambelu, A.; Arnold, B. F.; Brown, J.; Cumming, O.; Earl, A. M.; Kang, G.; Kariuki, S.; Levy, K.; Jimenez, C. E. P.; Swarthout, J. M.; Trueba, G.; Tsukayama, P.; Worby, C. J.; Pickering, A. J. Evaluating the relationship between community water and sanitation access and the global burden of antibiotic resistance: an ecological study. The Lancet Microbe, 2023, 4(8), e591-e600. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00137-4.
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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 (3), e197–e208. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00028-1
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2022
Nadimpalli ML, Lanza VF, Montealegre MC, Sultana S, Fuhrmeister ER, Worby CJ, Teichmann L, Caduff L, Swarthout JM, Crider YS, Earl AM, Brown J, Luby SP, Islam MA, Julian TR, Pickering AJ. Drinking water chlorination has minor effects on the intestinal flora and resistomes of Bangladeshi children. Nat Microbiol. 2022, 620-629. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01101-3.
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Swarthout, J.M.*; Fuhrmeister, E.R.*; Hamzah, L.; Harris, A.R.; Gurley, E.S.; Satter, S.M.; Boehm, A.B.; Pickering, A.J. Differential overlap in human and animal fecal microbiomes and resistomes in rural versus urban Bangladesh. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2022, 88 (14), e00759-22.
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2021
Harvey, A.P.*; Fuhrmeister, E.R.*; Cantrell M.; Swarthout, J.M.; Nadimpalli, M.; Powers, J.; Pitol, A.K.; Julian, T.R.; Pickering, A.J. Longitudinal monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on high touch surfaces in a community setting. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2021, 8 (2), 168-175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00875
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One of ES&T Letters Best Papers of 2021
Fuhrmeister, E. R.; Larson, J. R.; Kleinschmit, A. J.; Kirby, J. E.; Pickering, A. J.; Bascom-Slack, C. A. Combating Antimicrobial Resistance Through Student-Driven Research and Environmental Surveillance. Front. Microbiol. 2021, 12, 126. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.577821.
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2020
Fuhrmeister, E.R.; Ercumen, A.; Grembi, J.A.; Islam, M.; Pickering, A.J.;Nelson, K. L. Shared bacterial communities between soil, stored drinking water, and hands in rural Bangladeshi households. Water Res. X 2020, 9. DOI: https://doig.org/10.1016/J.WROA.2020.100056.
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Fuhrmeister, E.R.; Ercumen, A.; Pickering, A.J.; Jeanis, K.M.; Crider, Y.; Ahmed, M.; Brown, S.; Alam, M.; Sen, D.; Islam, S.; Kabir, M.H.; Islam, M.; Rahman, M.; Kwong, L. H.; Arnold, B. F.; Luby, S. P.; Colford, J. M.; Nelson, K. L. Effect of sanitation improvements on pathogens and microbial source tracking markers in the rural Bangladeshi household environment. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2020, 54 (7), 4316–4326. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b04835.
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2019
Fuhrmeister, E.R.; Ercumen, A.; Pickering, A.J.; Jeanis, K.M.; Ahmed, M.; Brown, S.; Arnold, B.F.; Hubbard, A. E.; Alam, M.; Sen, D.; Islam, S.; Kabir, M. H.; Kwong, L. H.; Islam, M.; Unicomb, L.; Rahman, M.; Boehm, A. B.; Luby, S. P.; Colford, J. M.; Nelson, K. L. Predictors of enteric pathogens in the domestic environment from human and animal sources in rural Bangladesh. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2019, 53 (17), 10023–10033. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b07192.
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2015
Fuhrmeister, E.R.; Schwab, K.J.; Julian, T.R. Estimates of nitrogen, phosphorus, biochemical oxygen demand, and fecal coliforms entering the environment due to inadequate sanitation treatment technologies in 108 low and middle income countries. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2015, 49 (19), 11604–11611. DOI: https://doi.org10.1021/acs.est.5b02919
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Julian, T.R.; Islam, M.A.; Pickering, A.J.; Roy, S.; Fuhrmeister, E.R.; Ercumen, A.; Harris, A.; Bishai, J.; Schwab, K.J. Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of Escherichia coli isolated from feces, hands, and soils in rural Bangladesh using the Colilert Quanti-Tray System (IDEXX). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2015, 81 (5), 1735–1743. DOI: https://doi.org10.1128/AEM.03214-14
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