William Rhoads

Jul 3, 2024 | mdpi.com | Connor Brown |William Rhoads |Richard Helm |Didier Mena-Aguilar

All articles published by MDPI are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. No special permission is required to reuse all or part of the article published by MDPI, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. For more information, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/openaccess.

May 10, 2024 | ehp.niehs.nih.gov | William Rhoads |Timothy R. Julian |Antonia Eichelberg |Kerry Hamilton

Introduction Lower respiratory tract infections (RTIs) constitute the fourth leading cause of death globally and contribute 3.8% of total disability adjusted life years (DALYs) across all ages as of 2019.1 Young children and the immunocompromised are especially susceptible to lower RTIs.2–4 The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the associated COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated contributions of respiratory pathogens to the global burden of disease.5,6 Although improved access and availability of...

May 4, 2024 | medrxiv.org | Émile Sylvestre |William Rhoads |Timothy R. Julian |Frederik Hammes

The authors have declared no competing interest. ES was funded by postdoctoral fellowships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (558161-2021) and the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec Nature et technologies (303866).

Mar 19, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Alessio Cavallaro |Frederik Hammes |William Rhoads |Marco Gabrielli

AbstractMonitoring the levels of opportunistic pathogens in drinking water is important to plan interventions and understand the ecological niches that allow them to proliferate. Quantitative PCR is an established alternative to culture methods that can provide a faster, higher throughput, and more precise enumeration of the bacteria in water samples.