Christopher W. Woods, MD, MPH

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Department / Division:
Medicine / Infectious Diseases and International Health

Address:
VA Medical Center
508 Fulton Street, Service 113
Durham, NC 27705

Appointment Telephone:
919-668-7630

Fax Telephone:
919-479-2948

• MD, Duke University School of Medicine, 1994

• Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 1994-1997

• Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, 1999-2002
• Medical Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, 2000-2002

• MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002

Clinical Interests:
Infective endocarditis, tickborne disease, HIV infection, biological terrorism, medical microbiology, epidemiology

Research Interests:
1.  Emerging Infections
2.  Global Health
3.  Epidemiology of infectious diseases
4.  Clinical microbiology and diagnostics
5.  Bioterrorism Preparedness
6.  Surveillance for communicable diseases
7.  Antimicrobial resistance

Representative Publications:
Kutty PK, Benoit SR, Woods CW, Sena AC, Naggie S, Frederick J, Engemann J, Evans S, Pien BC, Banerjee SN, Engel J, McDonald LC. Assessment of Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease Surveillance Definitions, North Carolina, 2005 * Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008 Mar;29(3):197-202. (2008) Abstract

Pien BC, Mirrett S, Crews BR, Reller LB, Woods CW. Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/ALERT standard aerobic and standard anaerobic blood culture bottles inoculated directly or after transport in sodium polyanethol sulfonate tubes. J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Apr;45(4):1357-9. (2007) Abstract

Bressler AM, Kaye KS, LiPuma JJ, Alexander BD, Moore CM, Reller LB, Woods CW. Risk factors for Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteremia among intensive care unit patients without cystic fibrosis: a case-control study. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Aug;28(8):951-8. (2007) Abstract

Breitschwerdt EB, Maggi RG, Duncan AW, Nicholson WL, Hegarty BC, Woods CW. Bartonella species in blood of immunocompetent persons with animal and arthropod contact. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Jun;13(6):938-41. (2007) Abstract

Woods CW, Murdoch DR, Zimmerman MD, Glover WA, Basnyat B, Wolf L, Belbase RH, Reller LB. Emergence of Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi A as a major cause of enteric fever in Kathmandu, Nepal. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Nov;100(11):1063-7. (2006) Abstract

Whitney EA, Heilpern KL, Woods CW, Bahn CC, Franko EA, Del Rio C, Silk BJ, Ratcliff JJ, Bryant KA, Park MM, Watkins SJ, Caram LB, Blumberg HM, Berkelman RL. West Nile virus among hospitalized, febrile patients: a case for expanding diagnostic testing. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2006;6(1):42-9. (2006) Abstract

Pien BC, Saah JR, Miller SE, Woods CW. Use of sentinel laboratories by clinicians to evaluate potential bioterrorism and emerging infections. Clin Infect Dis. 2006 May 1;42(9):1311-24. (2006) Abstract

Lalani T, Kanafani ZA, Chu VH, Moore L, Corey GR, Pappas P, Woods CW, Cabell CH, Hoen B, Selton-Suty C, Doco-Lecompte T, Chirouze C, Raoult D, Miro JM, Mestres CA, Olaison L, Eykyn S, Abrutyn E, Fowler VG Jr, . Prosthetic valve endocarditis due to coagulase-negative staphylococci: findings from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2006 May 11. (2006) Abstract

Brooks R, Woods CW, Benjamin DK Jr, Rosenstein NE. Increased case-fatality rate associated with outbreaks of Neisseria meningitidis infection, compared with sporadic meningococcal disease, in the United States, 1994-2002. Clin Infect Dis. 2006 Jul 1;43(1):49-54. (2006) Abstract

Basnyat B, Belbase RH, Zimmerman MD, Woods CW, Reller LB, Murdoch DR. Clinical features of scrub typhus. Clin Infect Dis. 2006 May 15;42(10):1505-6. (2006) Abstract

Turner JW, Pien BC, Ardoin SA, Anderson AM, Shieh WJ, Zaki SR, Bhatnagar J, Guarner J, Howell DN, Woods CW. A man with chest pain and glomerulonephritis. Lancet. 2005 Jun 11-17;365(9476):2062. (2005) Abstract

Petti CA, Woods CW, Reller LB. Streptococcus pneumoniae antigen test using positive blood culture bottles as an alternative method to diagnose pneumococcal bacteremia. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 May;43(5):2510-2. (2005) Abstract

Fowler VG Jr, Justice A, Moore C, Benjamin DK Jr, Woods CW, Campbell S, Reller LB, Corey GR, Day NP, Peacock SJ. Risk factors for hematogenous complications of intravascular catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Mar 1;40(5):695-703. (2005) Abstract

Chu VH, Sexton DJ, Cabell CH, Reller LB, Pappas PA, Singh RK, Fowler VG Jr, Corey GR, Aksoy O, Woods CW. Repeat infective endocarditis: differentiating relapse from reinfection. Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Aug 1;41(3):406-9. (2005) Abstract

Woods CW, Ospanov K, Myrzabekov A, Favorov M, Plikaytis B, Ashford DA.  Re-emergence of Anthrax in Kazakhstan.  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (In Press)
(2004)

Woods CW, Bressler AM, LiPuma JJ, Alexander BD, Clements DA, Weber DJ, Moore CM, Reller LB, Kaye KS. Virulence associated with outbreak-related strains of Burkholderia cepacia complex among a cohort of patients with bacteremia. Clin Infect Dis. 2004 May 1;38(9):1243-50. (2004) Abstract

Woods CW, Ashford D.A.  Identifying and Managing Casualties of Biological Terrorism.  In: UpToDate, Rose, BD (Ed), UpToDate, Wellesley, MA, 2000-2004.

(2004)

Murdoch DR, Woods CW, Zimmerman MD, Dull PM, Belbase RH, Keenan AJ, Scott RM, Basnyat B, Archibald LK, Reller LB. The etiology of febrile illness in adults presenting to Patan hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2004 Jun;70(6):670-5. (2004) Abstract

Joyce M, Woods CW. Antibacterial susceptibility testing in the clinical laboratory. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2004 Sep;18(3):401-34, vii. (2004) Abstract

Bajani MD, Ashford DA, Bragg SL, Woods CW, Aye T, Spiegel RA, Plikaytis BD, Perkins BA, Phelan M, Levett PN, Weyant RS. Evaluation of four commercially available rapid serologic tests for diagnosis of leptospirosis. J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Feb;41(2):803-9. (2003) Abstract

Woods CW, Karpati AM, Grein T, McCarthy N, Gaturuku P, Muchiri E, Dunster L, Henderson A, Khan AS, Swanepoel R, Bonmarin I, Martin L, Mann P, Smoak BL, Ryan M, Ksiazek TG, Arthur RR, Ndikuyeze A, Agata NN, Peters CJ, . An outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Northeastern Kenya, 1997-98. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002 Feb;8(2):138-44. (2002) Abstract

Morgan J, Bornstein SL, Karpati AM, Bruce M, Bolin CA, Austin CC, Woods CW, Lingappa J, Langkop C, Davis B, Graham DR, Proctor M, Ashford DA, Bajani M, Bragg SL, Shutt K, Perkins BA, Tappero JW, . Outbreak of leptospirosis among triathlon participants and community residents in Springfield, Illinois, 1998. Clin Infect Dis. 2002 Jun 15;34(12):1593-9. (2002) Abstract

Hajjeh RA, Relman D, Cieslak PR, Sofair AN, Passaro D, Flood J, Johnson J, Hacker JK, Shieh WJ, Hendry RM, Nikkari S, Ladd-Wilson S, Hadler J, Rainbow J, Tappero JW, Woods CW, Conn L, Reagan S, Zaki S, Perkins BA. Surveillance for unexplained deaths and critical illnesses due to possibly infectious causes, United States, 1995-1998. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002 Feb;8(2):145-53. (2002) Abstract

Cabell CH, Jollis JG, Peterson GE, Corey GR, Anderson DJ, Sexton DJ, Woods CW, Reller LB, Ryan T, Fowler VG Jr. Changing patient characteristics and the effect on mortality in endocarditis. Arch Intern Med. 2002 Jan 14;162(1):90-4. (2002) Abstract

Woods CW, McRill C, Plikaytis BD, Rosenstein NE, Mosley D, Boyd D, England B, Perkins BA, Ampel NM, Hajjeh RA. Coccidioidomycosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected persons in Arizona, 1994-1997: incidence, risk factors, and prevention. J Infect Dis. 2000 Apr;181(4):1428-34. (2000) Abstract

Woods CW, Armstrong G, Sackey SO, Tetteh C, Bugri S, Perkins BA, Rosenstein NE. Emergency vaccination against epidemic meningitis in Ghana: implications for the control of meningococcal disease in West Africa. Lancet. 2000 Jan 1;355(9197):30-3. (2000) Abstract