Physicians

Departments / Divisions

• Medicine / Medicine-Infectious Diseases
• Pathology

Address
508 Fulton Street, Service 113
Durham, NC 27705

Appointment Telephone
919-668-7630

Fax Telephone
919-479-2948

Training

• MD, Duke University School of Medicine, 1994

Residency

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

Fellowship

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

Other Training

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

Clinical Interests
Infective endocarditis, tick-borne 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

Industry Relationships and Collaborations (What's this?)

This faculty member has no reported relationships with industry.

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. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2008;29:197-202. (2008) 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. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2007;13:938-941. (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. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2007;28:951-958. (2007) 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. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2007;45:1357-1359. (2007) Abstract

Basnyat, B; Belbase, RH; Zimmerman, MD; Woods, CW; Reller, LB; Murdoch, DR. Clinical features of scrub typhus. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2006;42:1505-1506. (2006) Abstract

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

Pien, BC; Saah, JR; Miller, SE; Woods, CW. Use of sentinel laboratories by clinicians to evaluate potential bioterrorism and emerging infections. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2006;42:1311-1324. (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 and Zoonotic Diseases. 2006;6:42-49. (2006) 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. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2006;100:1063-1067. (2006) Abstract

Chu, VH; Sexton, DJ; Cabell, CH; Reller, LB; Pappas, PA; Singh, RK; Fowler, VG; Corey, GR; Aksoy, O; Woods, CW. Repeat infective endocarditis: differentiating relapse from reinfection. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2005;41:406-409. (2005) Abstract

Fowler, VG; Justice, A; Moore, C; Benjamin, DK; Woods, CW; Campbell, S; Reller, LB; Corey, GR; Day, NP; Peacock, SJ. Risk factors for hematogenous complications of intravascular catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2005;40:695-703. (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. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2005;43:2510-2512. (2005) 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;365:2062. (2005) Abstract

Joyce, M; Woods, CW. Antibacterial susceptibility testing in the clinical laboratory. Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 2004;18:401-vii. (2004) Abstract

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. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2004;70:670-675. (2004) Abstract

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. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2004;38:1243-1250. (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. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2003;41:803-809. (2003) Abstract

Cabell, CH; Jollis, JG; Peterson, GE; Corey, GR; Anderson, DJ; Sexton, DJ; Woods, CW; Reller, LB; Ryan, T; Fowler, VG. Changing patient characteristics and the effect on mortality in endocarditis. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2002;162:90-94. (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. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2002;8:145-153. (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; Leptospirosis Working Group. Outbreak of leptospirosis among triathlon participants and community residents in Springfield, Illinois, 1998. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2002;34:1593-1599. (2002) 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; World Health Organization Hemorrhagic Fever Task Force. An outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Northeastern Kenya, 1997-98. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2002;8:138-144. (2002) 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;355:30-33. (2000) 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. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2000;181:1428-1434. (2000) Abstract