Infectious Diseases

Christopher Wildrick Woods, MD

Professor of Medicine
Associate Director of Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine
Research Professor of Global Health
Professor in Pathology
Campus mail 310 Trent Drive, Duke Box #90519, Durham, NC 27708
Phone (919) 668-7174
Email address chris.woods@duke.edu

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

Education and Training

  • Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Duke University, 2001 - 2002
  • Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Duke University, 1999 - 2000
  • Medical Resident, Medicine, Duke University, 1994 - 1997
  • M.D., Duke University, 1994

Grants

Publications

Ciccone, Emily J., Donaldson F. Conserve, Gaurav Dave, Christoph P. Hornik, Marlena L. Kuhn, Jessica L. Herling, Michelle Song, et al. “At-home testing to mitigate community transmission of SARS-CoV-2: protocol for a public health intervention with a nested prospective cohort study.” Bmc Public Health 21, no. 1 (December 4, 2021): 2209. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12007-w.

PMID
34863144
Full Text

Heggestad, Jacob T., Rhett J. Britton, David S. Kinnamon, Simone A. Wall, Daniel Y. Joh, Angus M. Hucknall, Lyra B. Olson, et al. “Rapid test to assess the escape of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.” Sci Adv 7, no. 49 (December 3, 2021): eabl7682. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl7682.

PMID
34860546
Full Text

Jaffe, Ian S., Anja K. Jaehne, Eugenia Quackenbush, Emily R. Ko, Emanuel P. Rivers, Micah T. McClain, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Christopher W. Woods, and Ephraim L. Tsalik. “Comparing the Diagnostic Accuracy of Clinician Judgment to a Novel Host Response Diagnostic for Acute Respiratory Illness.” Open Forum Infect Dis 8, no. 12 (December 2021): ofab564. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab564.

PMID
34888402
Full Text

Bodinayake, Champica K., Ajith DeS Nagahawatte, Vasantha Devasiri, Niroshana J. Dahanayake, Gaya B. Wijayaratne, Nayani P. Weerasinghe, Madureka Premamali, et al. “Outcomes among children and adults at risk of severe dengue in Sri Lanka: Opportunity for outpatient case management in countries with high disease burden.” Plos Negl Trop Dis 15, no. 12 (December 2021): e0010091. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010091.

PMID
34962920
Full Text

Hurst, Jillian H., Sarah M. Heston, Hailey N. Chambers, Hannah M. Cunningham, Meghan J. Price, Lilianna Suarez, Carter G. Crew, et al. “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study.” Clin Infect Dis 73, no. 9 (November 2, 2021): e2875–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1693.

PMID
33141180
Full Text

Tsalik, Ephraim L., Ricardo Henao, Jesse L. Montgomery, Jeff W. Nawrocki, Mert Aydin, Emily C. Lydon, Emily R. Ko, et al. “Discriminating Bacterial and Viral Infection Using a Rapid Host Gene Expression Test.” Crit Care Med 49, no. 10 (October 1, 2021): 1651–63. https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000005085.

PMID
33938716
Full Text

Paterson, Suzanna, Satwik Kar, Seng Kuong Ung, Zoe Gardener, Emma Bergstrom, Stephanie Ascough, Mohini Kalyan, et al. “Innate-like Gene Expression of Lung-Resident Memory CD8+ T Cells during Experimental Human Influenza: A Clinical Study.” Am J Respir Crit Care Med 204, no. 7 (October 1, 2021): 826–41. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202103-0620OC.

PMID
34256007
Full Text

Friedland, Anne, Adrian F. Hernandez, Kevin J. Anstrom, Mei Lin Chen-Lim, Lauren W. Cohen, Judith S. Currier, Christopher B. Forrest, et al. “Design of the Healthcare Worker Exposure Response and Outcomes (HERO) research platform.” Contemp Clin Trials 109 (October 2021): 106525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2021.106525.

PMID
34371163
Full Text

Coburn, Jenifer, Mathieu Picardeau, Christopher W. Woods, Timothy Veldman, and David A. Haake. “Pathogenesis insights from an ancient and ubiquitous spirochete.” Plos Pathog 17, no. 10 (October 2021): e1009836. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009836.

PMID
34673833
Full Text

Melle, David T. van, Guus Ten Asbroek, Robert Rolfe, Sky Vanderburg, Yohanna W. Abeysinghe, Chathuh Halloluwa, Helen L. Zhang, et al. “Knowledge, Perceptions, and Attitudes Regarding Antibiotic Use for Lower Respiratory Tract Infections: Insights from Patients in Sri Lanka.” Am J Trop Med Hyg 105, no. 6 (September 27, 2021): 1690–95. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-0419.

PMID
34583336
Full Text

Pages