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Gertjan Medema is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with specific subfields including Infectious Diseases, Water Science and Technology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Biomedical Engineering, and Pollution.

The main topics covered by their work include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Fecal contamination and water quality
  • Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

Gertjan Medema has co-authored frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • Leo Heijnen
  • Joan B. Rose
  • Miranda de Graaf
  • Goffe Elsinga
  • Marion Koopmans

Their research has appeared often in a number of publication venues, including:

  • Water Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Risk Analysis

The following are some of their recent papers with publication year and venue:

  • Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 RNA in Sewage and Correlation with Reported COVID-19 Prevalence in the Early Stage of the Epidemic in The Netherlands, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • Implementation of environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 virus to support public health decisions: Opportunities and challenges, 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health
  • Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Other closely associated research papers include works led by other authors but related to the field, such as "Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology, and "Minimizing errors in RT-PCR detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment.

Best Publications

  • Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 RNA in Sewage and Correlation with Reported COVID-19 Prevalence in the Early Stage of the Epidemic in the Netherlands

    Gertjan Medema;Leo Heijnen;Goffe Elsinga;Ronald Italiaander

  • Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19.

    Aaron Bivins;Devin North;Arslan Ahmad;Warish Ahmed

  • Potential impacts of changing supply-water quality on drinking water distribution: A review

    Gang Liu;Ya Zhang;Willem Jan Knibbe;Cuijie Feng

  • Assessment of the risk of infection by Cryptosporidium or Giardia in drinking water from a surface water source

    P.F.M. Teunis;G.J. Medema;L. Kruidenier;A.H. Havelaar

  • Implementation of environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 virus to support public health decisions: opportunities and challenges.

    Gertjan Medema;Gertjan Medema;Frederic Been;Leo Heijnen;Susan Petterson

  • Microbial hazards in irrigation water: standards, norms, and testing to manage use of water in fresh produce primary production.

    Mieke Uyttendaele;Lee-Ann Jaykus;Philip Amoah;Alessandro Chiodini

  • Sedimentation of Free and Attached Cryptosporidium Oocysts and Giardia Cysts in Water

    G. J. Medema;F. M. Schets;P. F. M. Teunis;A. H. Havelaar

  • Minimizing errors in RT-PCR detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance

    Warish Ahmed;Stuart L. Simpson;Paul M. Bertsch;Kyle Bibby

  • Assessment of the dose-response relationship of Campylobacter jejuni

    G.J. Medema;P.F.M. Teunis;A.H. Havelaar;C.N. Haas

  • Pyrosequencing Reveals Bacterial Communities in Unchlorinated Drinking Water Distribution System: An Integral Study of Bulk Water, Suspended Solids, Loose Deposits, and Pipe Wall Biofilm

    G. Liu;G. L. Bakker;S. Li;S. Li;J. H. G. Vreeburg

  • Survival of Cryptosporidium parvum, Escherichia coli, faecal enterococci and Clostridium perfringens in river water : Influence of temperature and autochthonous microorganisms

    G. J. Medema;M. Bahar;F. M. Schets

  • Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 Circulation and Diversity through Community Wastewater Sequencing, the Netherlands and Belgium.

    Ray Izquierdo-Lara;Goffe Elsinga;Leo Heijnen;Bas B. Oude Munnink

  • The impact of on-site hospital wastewater treatment on the downstream communal wastewater system in terms of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes.

    Gabriela K. Paulus;Luc M. Hornstra;Nikiforos Alygizakis;Jaroslav Slobodnik

  • Salivary levels of immunoglobulin A in triathletes

    Peter A. Steerenberg;Ilse A. van Asperen;Arievan Nieuw Amerongen;Jeike Biewenga

  • The Dutch secret: how to provide safe drinking water without chlorine in the Netherlands

    P.W.M.H. Smeets;G.J. Medema;J.C. Van Dijk

  • Transport of MS2 Phage, Escherichia coli, Clostridium perfringens, Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia intestinalis in a Gravel and a Sandy Soil •

    Wim A M Hijnen;Anke J Brouwer-Hanzens;Katrina J Charles;Gertjan J Medema

  • GAC adsorption filters as barriers for viruses, bacteria and protozoan (oo)cysts in water treatment.

    W.A.M. Hijnen;G.M.H. Suylen;J.A. Bahlman;A. Brouwer-Hanzens

  • Quantitative detection of E. coli, E. coli O157 and other shiga toxin producing E. coli in water samples using a culture method combined with real-time PCR.

    Leo Heijnen;Gertjan Medema

  • Assessing the origin of bacteria in tap water and distribution system in an unchlorinated drinking water system by SourceTracker using microbial community fingerprints.

    Gang Liu;Ya Zhang;Ed van der Mark;Aleksandra Magic-Knezev

  • Safe Drinking Water: An ongoing challenge

    GJ Medema;P Payment;W Robertson;M Waite

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack F. Schijven
Jack F. Schijven Utrecht University
Arie H. Havelaar
Arie H. Havelaar University of Florida
Joan B. Rose
Joan B. Rose Michigan State University
Wen-Tso Liu
Wen-Tso Liu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carolien Kroeze
Carolien Kroeze Wageningen University & Research
Luuk C. Rietveld
Luuk C. Rietveld Delft University of Technology
Warish Ahmed
Warish Ahmed Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Michèle Prévost
Michèle Prévost Polytechnique Montréal
Rosina Girones
Rosina Girones University of Barcelona
Kyle Bibby
Kyle Bibby University of Notre Dame

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