Chris W. Woods

Recent Publications: (More Publications)

• PK Kutty, SR Benoit, CW Woods, AC Sena, S Naggie, J Frederick, J Engemann, S Evans, BC Pien, SN Banerjee, J Engel, LC McDonald, Assessment of Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease Surveillance Definitions, North Carolina, 2005 *, Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America, vol 29 no. 3 (2008), pp. 197-202 [abs]
• AM Bressler, KS Kaye, JJ LiPuma, BD Alexander, CM Moore, LB Reller, CW Woods, Risk factors for Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteremia among intensive care unit patients without cystic fibrosis: a case-control study., Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America, United States, vol 28 no. 8 (2007), pp. 951-8 [abs]
• EB Breitschwerdt, RG Maggi, AW Duncan, WL Nicholson, BC Hegarty, CW Woods, Bartonella species in blood of immunocompetent persons with animal and arthropod contact., Emerging infectious diseases, United States, vol 13 no. 6 (2007), pp. 938-41 [abs]
• BC Pien, S Mirrett, BR Crews, LB Reller, CW Woods, 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, United States, vol 45 no. 4 (2007), pp. 1357-9 [abs]
• CW Woods, DR Murdoch, MD Zimmerman, WA Glover, B Basnyat, L Wolf, RH Belbase, LB Reller, 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, England, vol 100 no. 11 (2006), pp. 1063-7 [abs]
• R Brooks, CW Woods, DK Benjamin, NE Rosenstein, 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 : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, United States, vol 43 no. 1 (2006), pp. 49-54 [abs]
• B Basnyat, RH Belbase, MD Zimmerman, CW Woods, LB Reller, DR Murdoch, Clinical features of scrub typhus., Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, United States, vol 42 no. 10 (2006), pp. 1505-6
• T Lalani, ZA Kanafani, VH Chu, L Moore, GR Corey, P Pappas, CW Woods, CH Cabell, B Hoen, C Selton-Suty, T Doco-Lecompte, C Chirouze, D Raoult, JM Miro, CA Mestres, L Olaison, S Eykyn, E Abrutyn, VG Fowler, The International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database Study Group, Prosthetic valve endocarditis due to coagulase-negative staphylococci: findings from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database., Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2006) [abs]
• BC Pien, JR Saah, SE Miller, CW Woods, Use of sentinel laboratories by clinicians to evaluate potential bioterrorism and emerging infections., Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, United States, vol 42 no. 9 (2006), pp. 1311-24 [abs]
• EA Whitney, KL Heilpern, CW Woods, CC Bahn, EA Franko, C Del Rio, BJ Silk, JJ Ratcliff, KA Bryant, MM Park, SJ Watkins, LB Caram, HM Blumberg, RL Berkelman, West Nile virus among hospitalized, febrile patients: a case for expanding diagnostic testing., Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.), United States, vol 6 no. 1 (2006), pp. 42-9 [abs]
• VH Chu, DJ Sexton, CH Cabell, LB Reller, PA Pappas, RK Singh, VG Fowler, GR Corey, O Aksoy, CW Woods, Repeat infective endocarditis: differentiating relapse from reinfection., Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, United States, vol 41 no. 3 (2005), pp. 406-9 [abs]
• CA Petti, CW Woods, LB Reller, Streptococcus pneumoniae antigen test using positive blood culture bottles as an alternative method to diagnose pneumococcal bacteremia., Journal of clinical microbiology, United States, vol 43 no. 5 (2005), pp. 2510-2 [abs]
• VG Fowler, A Justice, C Moore, DK Benjamin, CW Woods, S Campbell, LB Reller, GR Corey, NP Day, SJ Peacock, Risk factors for hematogenous complications of intravascular catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia., Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, United States, vol 40 no. 5 (2005), pp. 695-703 [abs]
• M Joyce, CW Woods, Antibacterial susceptibility testing in the clinical laboratory., Infectious disease clinics of North America, United States, vol 18 no. 3 (2004), pp. 401-34, vii [abs]
• DR Murdoch, CW Woods, MD Zimmerman, PM Dull, RH Belbase, AJ Keenan, RM Scott, B Basnyat, LK Archibald, LB Reller, The etiology of febrile illness in adults presenting to Patan hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal., The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, United States, vol 70 no. 6 (2004), pp. 670-5 [abs]
• CW Woods, AM Bressler, JJ LiPuma, BD Alexander, DA Clements, DJ Weber, CM Moore, LB Reller, KS Kaye, Virulence associated with outbreak-related strains of Burkholderia cepacia complex among a cohort of patients with bacteremia., Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, United States, vol 38 no. 9 (2004), pp. 1243-50 [abs]
• , Woods CW, Ashford D.A.  Identifying and Managing Casualties of Biological Terrorism.  In: UpToDate, Rose, BD (Ed), UpToDate, Wellesley, MA, 2000-2004.
  
  (2004)
• , 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)
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• MD Bajani, DA Ashford, SL Bragg, CW Woods, T Aye, RA Spiegel, BD Plikaytis, BA Perkins, M Phelan, PN Levett, RS Weyant, Evaluation of four commercially available rapid serologic tests for diagnosis of leptospirosis., Journal of clinical microbiology, United States, vol 41 no. 2 (2003), pp. 803-9 [abs]
• J Morgan, SL Bornstein, AM Karpati, M Bruce, CA Bolin, CC Austin, CW Woods, J Lingappa, C Langkop, B Davis, DR Graham, M Proctor, DA Ashford, M Bajani, SL Bragg, K Shutt, BA Perkins, JW Tappero, Leptospirosis Working Group, Outbreak of leptospirosis among triathlon participants and community residents in Springfield, Illinois, 1998., Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, United States, vol 34 no. 12 (2002), pp. 1593-9 [abs]
• CW Woods, AM Karpati, T Grein, N McCarthy, P Gaturuku, E Muchiri, L Dunster, A Henderson, AS Khan, R Swanepoel, I Bonmarin, L Martin, P Mann, BL Smoak, M Ryan, TG Ksiazek, RR Arthur, A Ndikuyeze, NN Agata, CJ Peters, World Health Organization Hemorrhagic Fever Task Force, An outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Northeastern Kenya, 1997-98., Emerging infectious diseases, United States, vol 8 no. 2 (2002), pp. 138-44 [abs]
• RA Hajjeh, D Relman, PR Cieslak, AN Sofair, D Passaro, J Flood, J Johnson, JK Hacker, WJ Shieh, RM Hendry, S Nikkari, S Ladd-Wilson, J Hadler, J Rainbow, JW Tappero, CW Woods, L Conn, S Reagan, S Zaki, BA Perkins, Surveillance for unexplained deaths and critical illnesses due to possibly infectious causes, United States, 1995-1998., Emerging infectious diseases, United States, vol 8 no. 2 (2002), pp. 145-53 [abs]
• CH Cabell, JG Jollis, GE Peterson, GR Corey, DJ Anderson, DJ Sexton, CW Woods, LB Reller, T Ryan, VG Fowler, Changing patient characteristics and the effect on mortality in endocarditis., Archives of internal medicine, United States, vol 162 no. 1 (2002), pp. 90-4 [abs]
• CW Woods, C McRill, BD Plikaytis, NE Rosenstein, D Mosley, D Boyd, B England, BA Perkins, NM Ampel, RA Hajjeh, Coccidioidomycosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected persons in Arizona, 1994-1997: incidence, risk factors, and prevention., The Journal of infectious diseases, UNITED STATES, vol 181 no. 4 (2000), pp. 1428-34 [abs]
• CW Woods, G Armstrong, SO Sackey, C Tetteh, S Bugri, BA Perkins, NE Rosenstein, Emergency vaccination against epidemic meningitis in Ghana: implications for the control of meningococcal disease in West Africa., Lancet, ENGLAND, vol 355 no. 9197 (2000), pp. 30-3 [abs]
• JW Turner, BC Pien, SA Ardoin, AM Anderson, WJ Shieh, SR Zaki, J Bhatnagar, J Guarner, DN Howell, CW Woods, A man with chest pain and glomerulonephritis., Lancet, England, vol 365 no. 9476, pp. 2062