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Christoph Ort is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Biomedical Engineering, Modeling and Simulation, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has published extensively, with a particular emphasis on SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, covering various aspects of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research. Other main topics in their work include respiratory viral infections research, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, biosensors and analytical detection, forensic toxicology and drug analysis, and urban stormwater management solutions.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Water Research
  • Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • Nature Water
  • Environmental Health Perspectives

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Wastewater-Based Estimation of the Effective Reproductive Number of SARS-CoV-2, 2022, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Early detection and surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 genomic variants in wastewater using COJAC, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Wastewater monitoring outperforms case numbers as a tool to track COVID-19 incidence dynamics when test positivity rates are high, 2021, Water Research
  • Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems, 2023, The Lancet Global Health
  • Detection and surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 genomic variants in wastewater, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Christoph Ort has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Timothy R. Julian
  • Tamar Kohn
  • Pravin Ganesanandamoorthy
  • Tanja Stadler
  • Lea Caduff

Best Publications

  • Elimination of organic micropollutants in a municipal wastewater treatment plant upgraded with a full-scale post-ozonation followed by sand filtration.

    Juliane Hollender;Saskia G. Zimmermann;Stephan Koepke;Martin Krauss

  • Evaluation of uncertainties associated with the determination of community drug use through the measurement of sewage drug biomarkers.

    Sara Castiglioni;Lubertus Bijlsma;Adrian Covaci;Erik Emke

  • Sampling for Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) and Illicit Drugs in Wastewater Systems: Are Your Conclusions Valid? A Critical Review

    Christoph Ort;Michael Glen Lawrence;Jorg Rieckermann;Adriano Joss

  • Comparing illicit drug use in 19 European cities through sewage analysis.

    Kevin V. Thomas;Lubertus Bijlsma;Sara Castiglioni;Adrian Covaci

  • Fate and transformation of silver nanoparticles in urban wastewater systems.

    Ralf Kaegi;Andreas Voegelin;Christoph Ort;Brian Sinnet

  • Sampling for PPCPs in Wastewater Systems: Comparison of Different Sampling Modes and Optimization Strategies

    Christoph Ort;Michael Glen Lawrence;Julien Reungoat;Jochen F. Mueller

  • Spatial differences and temporal changes in illicit drug use in Europe quantified by wastewater analysis.

    Christoph Ort;Alexander L. N. van Nuijs;Jean-Daniel Berset;Lubertus Bijlsma

  • Population Normalization with Ammonium in Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Application to Illicit Drug Monitoring

    Frédéric Been;Luca Rossi;Christophe Ort;Serge Rudaz

  • Critical review on the stability of illicit drugs in sewers and wastewater samples

    Ann-Kathrin McCall;Richard Bade;Juliet Kinyua;Foon Yin Lai

  • Kinetic assessment and modeling of an ozonation step for full-scale municipal wastewater treatment: Micropollutant oxidation, by-product formation and disinfection

    Saskia G. Zimmermann;Saskia G. Zimmermann;Mathias Wittenwiler;Mathias Wittenwiler;Juliane Hollender;Martin Krauss

  • Assessing geographical differences in illicit drug consumption—A comparison of results from epidemiological and wastewater data in Germany and Switzerland

    Frederic Been;Lubertus Bijlsma;Lisa Benaglia;Jean Daniel Berset

  • Cocaine, MDMA and methamphetamine residues in wastewater: Consumption trends (2009–2015) in South East Queensland, Australia

    Foon Yin Lai;Jake W. O'Brien;Phong K. Thai;Wayne Hall

  • Challenges of surveying wastewater drug loads of small populations and generalizable aspects on optimizing monitoring design.

    Christoph Ort;Jonas Maria Eppler;Andreas Scheidegger;Jörg Rieckermann

  • Refining the estimation of illicit drug consumptions from wastewater analysis: Co-analysis of prescription pharmaceuticals and uncertainty assessment

    Foon Yin Lai;Christoph Ort;Christoph Ort;Coral Gartner;Steve Carter

  • Spatio‐temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring

    Iria González-Mariño;Iria González-Mariño;Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba;Nikiforos A. Alygizakis;Maria Jesús Andrés-Costa

  • Determining the fraction of pharmaceutical residues in wastewater originating from a hospital.

    Christoph Ort;Michael G. Lawrence;Julien Reungoat;Geoff Eaglesham

  • Occurrence and mass flows of fluorochemicals in the Glatt Valley watershed, Switzerland.

    Carin A Huset;Aurea C Chiaia;Douglas F Barofsky;Niels Jonkers

  • Comparison of pharmaceutical, illicit drug, alcohol, nicotine and caffeine levels in wastewater with sale, seizure and consumption data for 8 European cities

    Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba;Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba;Stefania Salvatore;Emma Gracia-Lor;Richard Bade

  • Occurrence and removal of N-nitrosamines in wastewater treatment plants.

    Martin Krauss;Philipp Longrée;Falk Dorusch;Christoph Ort

  • Consumption-based approach for assessing the contribution of hospitals towards the load of pharmaceutical residues in municipal wastewater

    Kristell S. Le Corre;Christoph Ort;Diana Kateley;Belinda Allen

  • Engineered nanomaterials in rivers--exposure scenarios for Switzerland at high spatial and temporal resolution.

    F. Gottschalk;C. Ort;C. Ort;R.W. Scholz;B. Nowack

Frequent Co-Authors

Phong K. Thai
Phong K. Thai University of Queensland
Jochen F. Mueller
Jochen F. Mueller University of Queensland
Kevin V. Thomas
Kevin V. Thomas University of Queensland
Raimondo Bruno
Raimondo Bruno University of Tasmania
Adrian Covaci
Adrian Covaci University of Antwerp
Sara Castiglioni
Sara Castiglioni Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Wayne Hall
Wayne Hall University of Queensland
Félix Hernández
Félix Hernández Jaume I University
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs University of Antwerp
Lubertus Bijlsma
Lubertus Bijlsma Jaume I University

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