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Javornik Cregeen S, Tisza MJ, Hanson B, Cook M, Surathu A, Schneider R, Wu J, Short K, Domakonda K, Hopkins L, Ross MC, Petrosino JF, Deegan J, Stadler LB, Boerwinkle E, Maresso A. Sequencing-Based Detection of Measles in Wastewater: Texas, January 2025. Am J Public Health. 2025 May 8:e1-e5. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2025.308146. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40340466.
Tisza MJ, Lloyd RE, Hoffman K, Smith DP, Rewers M, Javornik Cregeen SJ, Petrosino JF. Longitudinal phage-bacteria dynamics in the early life gut microbiome. Nat Microbiol. 2025 Feb;10(2):420-430. doi: 10.1038/s41564-024-01906-4. Epub 2025 Jan 24. PMID: 39856391; PMCID: PMC11790489.

Tisza MJ, Hanson BM, Clark JR, Wang L, Payne K, Ross MC, Mena KD, Gitter A, Javornik Cregeen SJ, Cormier J, Avadhanula V, Terwilliger A, Balliew J, Wu F, Rios J, Deegan J, Piedra PA, Petrosino JF, Boerwinkle E, Maresso AW. Sequencing-Based Detection of Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Wastewater in Ten Cities. N Engl J Med. 2024 Sep 26;391(12):1157-1159. PMID: 39259887.
Buck CB, Welch N, Belford AK, Varsani A, Pastrana DV, Tisza MJ, Starrett GJ. Widespread Horizontal Gene Transfer Among Animal Viruses. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Mar 26:2024.03.25.586562. PMID: 38712252.

Tisza M, Javornik Cregeen S, Avadhanula V, Zhang P, Ayvaz T, Feliz K, Hoffman KL, Clark JR, Terwilliger A, Ross MC, Cormier J, Moreno H, Wang L, Payne K, Henke D, Troisi C, Wu F, Rios J, Deegan J, Hansen B, Balliew J, Gitter A, Zhang K, Li R, Bauer CX, Mena KD, Piedra PA, Petrosino JF, Boerwinkle E, Maresso AW. Wastewater sequencing reveals community and variant dynamics of the collective human virome. Nat Commun. 2023 Oct 28;14(1):6878. PMID: 37898601.
Tisza MJ, Smith DDN, Clark AE, Youn JH; NISC Comparative Sequencing Program; Khil PP, Dekker JP. Roving methyltransferases generate a mosaic epigenetic landscape and influence evolution in Bacteroides fragilis group. Nat Commun. 2023 Jul 10;14(1):4082. PMID: 37429841.

Tisza MJ, Buck CB. A catalog of tens of thousands of viruses from human metagenomes reveals hidden associations with chronic diseases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Jun 8;118(23):e2023202118. PMID: 34083435.

Tisza MJ, Belford AK, Domínguez-Huerta G, Bolduc B, Buck CB. Cenote-Taker 2 democratizes virus discovery and sequence annotation. Virus Evol. 2020 Dec 30;7(1):veaa100. PMID: 33505708.
Tisza MJ, Pastrana DV, Welch NL, Stewart B, Peretti A, Starrett GJ, Pang YS, Krishnamurthy SR, Pesavento PA, McDermott DH, Murphy PM, Whited JL, Miller B, Brenchley J, Rosshart SP, Rehermann B, Doorbar J, Ta’ala BA, Pletnikova O, Troncoso JC, Resnick SM, Bolduc B, Sullivan MB, Varsani A, Segall AM, Buck CB. Discovery of several thousand highly diverse circular DNA viruses. Elife. 2020 Feb 4;9:e51971. PMID: 32014111.