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Debra A. Wadford

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h-index: 26
Works: 71
Citations: 5,783

Most-cited papers

CRISPR-Cas12–based detection of SARS-CoV-2
James P. Broughton, Xian-Ding Deng, Guixia Yu, Clare L. Fasching +16 more
2020Nature Biotechnology2,321 citations Open access
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A cloud-compatible bioinformatics pipeline for ultrarapid pathogen identification from next-generation sequencing of clinical samples
S. Naccache, Scot Federman, N. Veeraraghavan, M. Zaharia +22 more
2014Genome Research469 citations Open access
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Transmission, infectivity, and neutralization of a spike L452R SARS-CoV-2 variant
Xian-Ding Deng, M. García-Knight, M. Khalid, V. Servellita +42 more
2021Cell421 citations Open access
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A novel outbreak enterovirus D68 strain associated with acute flaccid myelitis cases in the United States from 2012-2014: a retrospective cohort study
A. Greninger, S. Naccache, K. Messacar, A. Clayton +15 more
2015Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print)365 citations Open access
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Genomic surveillance reveals multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into Northern California
Xian-Ding Deng, W. Gu, Scot Federman, L. du Plessis +46 more
2020Science246 citations Open access
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Transmission, infectivity, and antibody neutralization of an emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant in California carrying a L452R spike protein mutation
Xian-Ding Deng, M. García-Knight, M. Khalid, V. Servellita +42 more
2021medRxiv232 citations Open access
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Limited cross-variant immunity from SARS-CoV-2 Omicron without vaccination
R. Suryawanshi, Irene P. Chen, Tongcui Ma, A. Syed +39 more
2022Nature166 citations Open access
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Metagenomic sequencing with spiked primer enrichment (MSSPE) for viral diagnostics and genomic surveillance
Xian-Ding Deng, A. Achari, Scot Federman, Guixia Yu +36 more
2020Nature Microbiology159 citations Open access
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Rapid Detection of 2019 Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Using a CRISPR-based DETECTR Lateral Flow Assay
James P. Broughton, Xian-Ding Deng, Guixia Yu, Clare L. Fasching +14 more
2020medRxiv131 citations Open access
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Acute Flaccid Myelitis of Unknown Etiology in California, 2012-2015.
K. V. van Haren, P. Ayscue, E. Waubant, A. Clayton +12 more
2015Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)130 citations
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Pan-viral serology implicates enteroviruses in acute flaccid myelitis
Ryan D. Schubert, I. Hawes, P. Ramachandran, A. Ramesh +42 more
2019Nature Medicine111 citations Open access
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Adeno-associated virus type 2 in US children with acute severe hepatitis
V. Servellita, A. Gonzalez, D. Lamson, A. Foresythe +65 more
2023Nature101 citations Open access
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A diagnostic host response biosignature for COVID-19 from RNA profiling of nasal swabs and blood
Dianna L. Ng, Andrea C Granados, Yale A. Santos, V. Servellita +28 more
2021Science Advances94 citations Open access
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Recovery of a patient from clinical rabies--California, 2011.
Jean A. Wiedeman, J. Plant, Carol A. Glaser, Sharon Messenger +9 more
2012MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report86 citations
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Laboratory validation of a clinical metagenomic next-generation sequencing assay for respiratory virus detection and discovery
Jessica Tan, V. Servellita, D. Stryke, E. Kelly +22 more
2024Nature Communications59 citations Open access
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Identification of a Polymorphism in the N Gene of SARS-CoV-2 That Adversely Impacts Detection by Reverse Transcription-PCR
Manu Vanaerschot, S. Mann, James T. Webber, J. Kamm +23 more
2020Journal of Clinical Microbiology57 citations Open access
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Epidemiologic and Clinical Features of Children and Adolescents Aged <18 Years with Monkeypox — United States, May 17–September 24, 2022
Ian P. Hennessee, Victoria S Shelus, Cristin E. McArdle, Maren Wolf +99 more
2022MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report52 citations Open access
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Human infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses in the United States from March 2024 to May 2025
M. Rolfes, Krista Kniss, M. Kirby, S. Garg +76 more
2025Nature Medicine49 citations Open access
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Laboratory Testing for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, California, USA, 2013–2014
M. Shahkarami, Cynthia J. Yen, C. Glaser, Dongxiang Xia +2 more
2015Emerging Infectious Diseases48 citations Open access
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CRISPR–Cas12-based detection of SARS-CoV-2
James P. Broughton, Xian-Ding Deng, Guixia Yu, Clare L. Fasching +16 more
2020Nature Biotechnology45 citations Open access
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Limited cross-variant immunity after infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant without vaccination
R. Suryawanshi, Irene P. Chen, Tongcui Ma, Abdullah M. Syed +37 more
2022medRxiv44 citations Open access
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Predominance of antibody-resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants in vaccine breakthrough cases from the San Francisco Bay Area, California
V. Servellita, M. Morris, A. Sotomayor-González, Amelia S. Gliwa +24 more
2021Nature Microbiology43 citations Open access
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Acute Fulminant Cerebral Edema: A Newly Recognized Phenotype in Children With Suspected Encephalitis.
P. Krishnan, O. Glenn, M. Samuel, Heather Sheriff +7 more
2020Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society34 citations Open access
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A Genomic Survey of SARS-CoV-2 Reveals Multiple Introductions into Northern California without a Predominant Lineage
Xian-Ding Deng, W. Gu, Scot Federman, L. du Plessis +44 more
2020medRxiv31 citations Open access
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Rickettsia spp. 364D Causing a Cluster of Eschar-associated Illness, California
Samantha H. Johnston, C. Glaser, Kerry A. Padgett, Debra A. Wadford +8 more
2013The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal31 citations Open access
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Three Rotavirus Outbreaks in the Postvaccine Era — California, 2017
R. Burke, J. Tate, N. Barin, C. Bock. +12 more
2018MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report26 citations Open access
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 and Respiratory Virus Sentinel Surveillance, California, USA, May 10, 2020–June 12, 2021
G. Sondermeyer-Cooksey, Christina Morales, Lauren Linde, Samuel Schildhauer +35 more
2022Emerging Infectious Diseases24 citations Open access
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Outbreak of Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis Caused by Human Adenovirus Type D53 in an Eye Care Clinic — Los Angeles County, 2017
Kelsey Oyong, Marie E. Killerby, C. Pan, Thalia Huynh +3 more
2018MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report21 citations Open access
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Timely intervention and control of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak at a large skilled nursing facility—San Francisco, California, 2020
Ellora N. Karmarkar, Irin Blanco, Pauli N. Amornkul, Amie DuBois +30 more
2020Infection control and hospital epidemiology18 citations Open access
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Identification of a polymorphism in the N gene of SARS-CoV-2 that adversely impacts detection by a widely-used RT-PCR assay
M. Vanaerschot, S. Mann, James T. Webber, J. Kamm +23 more
2020bioRxiv16 citations Open access
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SARS-CoV-2 lineage assignments using phylogenetic placement/UShER are superior to pangoLEARN machine-learning method
Adriano de Bernardi Schneider, M. Su, A. Hinrichs, Jade C. Wang +10 more
2023bioRxiv15 citations Open access
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First Clade Ib Monkeypox Virus Infection Reported in the Americas — California, November 2024
V. Levy, Anna Branzuela, Kristina Hsieh, Shiffen Getabecha +54 more
2025MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report13 citations Open access
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Author Correction: Metagenomic sequencing with spiked primer enrichment for viral diagnostics and genomic surveillance
Xian-Ding Deng, A. Achari, Scot Federman, Guixia Yu +36 more
2020Nature Microbiology13 citations Open access
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Implementation of California COVIDNet – a multi-sector collaboration for statewide SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance
Debra A. Wadford, N. Baumrind, E. Baylis, John M. Bell +14 more
2023Frontiers in Public Health11 citations Open access
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Multiple Mutations Associated with Emergent Variants Can Be Detected as Low-Frequency Mutations in Early SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Clinical Samples
Jeffery A. Kimbrel, Joseph Moon, A. Avila-Herrera, Jose Manuel Martí +13 more
2022Viruses11 citations Open access
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Effectiveness of Abbott BinaxNOW Rapid Antigen Test for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Outbreak among Horse Racetrack Workers, California, USA
Krishna Surasi, K. Cummings, C. Hanson, M. Morris +6 more
2021Emerging Infectious Diseases11 citations Open access
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Trends of Enterovirus D68 Concentrations in Wastewater, California, USA, February 2021–April 2023
A. Boehm, Debra A. Wadford, Bridgette Hughes, D. Duong +12 more
2023Emerging Infectious Diseases10 citations Open access
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Rotavirus vaccination coverage during a rotavirus outbreak resulting in a fatality at a subacute care facility
R. Burke, J. Tate, George S. Han, Rebecca Quenelle +4 more
2019Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society10 citations Open access
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Wastewater Surveillance for Norovirus, California, USA
Alexander T. Yu, E. Burnor, Angela Rabe, Sarah Rutschmann +9 more
2024Emerging Infectious Diseases8 citations Open access
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Evaluation of co-circulating pathogens and microbiome from COVID-19 infections
J. Thissen, Michael D Morrison, N. Mulakken, W. Nelson +4 more
2022PLoS ONE8 citations Open access
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Pathogen genomics in public health laboratories: successes, challenges, and lessons learned from California’s SARS-CoV-2 Whole-Genome Sequencing Initiative, California COVIDNet
Emily A. Smith, Kevin G. Libuit, Curtis J. Kapsak, Michelle R. Scribner +11 more
2023Microbial Genomics7 citations Open access
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Detection of Community Transmission of Clade Ib Mpox Virus in the United States.
Eric C. Tang, Monica P. Haw, Sonali Kulkarni, E. Johnson +19 more
2025NEJM Evidence6 citations
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Wastewater for Public Health: Timely, sensitive, and reliable SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant monitoring in California
E. Burnor, Alexander Yu, M. Wolfe, Rose S. Kantor +19 more
2025Environmental Science4 citations
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Emergence of Recombinant SARS-CoV-2 Variants in California from 2020 to 2022
Rahil Ryder, Emily A. Smith, Deva Borthwick, Jesse Elder +3 more
2024Viruses4 citations Open access
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Neutralizing immunity induced against the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants in vaccine breakthrough infections
N. Brazer, M. Morris, V. Servellita, K. Anglin +17 more
2022Journal of Infectious Diseases4 citations Open access
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Genomic and epidemiologic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 persistent infections in California, January 2021 - July 2023
John M. Bell, Jesse Elder, Rahil Ryder, Emily A. Smith +7 more
2025bioRxiv3 citations Open access
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Differential immunity induced by Omicron sublineages in naïve and vaccine breakthrough infections
N. Brazer, M. Morris, V. Servellita, M. Oseguera +7 more
2025Scientific Reports3 citations Open access
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SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant genomic variation associated with breakthrough infection in Northern California: A retrospective cohort study.
J. Skarbinski, J. Nugent, Mariah S Wood, Liyan Liu +10 more
2023Journal of Infectious Diseases3 citations Open access
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Serological and metagenomic interrogation of cerebrospinal fluid implicates enteroviruses in pediatric acute flaccid myelitis
Ryan D. Schubert, I. Hawes, P. Ramachandran, A. Ramesh +42 more
2019bioRxiv3 citations Open access
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Genome Sequences of Rhinovirus Genotype C56 Detected in Three Patients with Acute Respiratory Illness, California, 2016 to 2017
C. Pan, S. Yagi, Tasha Padilla, Terry Fei Fan Ng +3 more
2018Microbiology Resource Announcements3 citations Open access
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