Christopher Wildrick Woods

Professor of Medicine

Appointments and Affiliations

• Professor of Medicine
• Associate Director of Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine
• Research Professor of Global Health
• Professor in Pathology

Contact Information

• Office Location: 310 Trent Drive, Duke Box #90519, Durham, NC 27708
• Office Phone: (919) 668-7174
• Email Address: chris.woods@duke.edu

Education

• Duke University, 2002
• Duke University, 2000
• Duke University, 1997
• M.D. Duke University, 1994

Courses Taught

• ENVIRON 774: One Health: From Philosophy to Practice
• GLHLTH 573D: One Health: From Philosophy to Practice
• GLHLTH 771: One Health: From Philosophy to Practice

In the News

• Years in the Making: Duke Human Vaccine Institute Researchers Attack COVID-19 (Nov 6, 2020 | School of Medicine)
• Duke Institute Tapped to Test Preventive Antibodies for COVID-19 (Aug 20, 2020 | Duke Health News)
• 1,300 Sign Up to Participate in MURDOCK COVID-19 Prevalence and Immunity Study (Aug 6, 2020 | Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute)
• Duke Experts Address Coronavirus Testing Issues (Apr 21, 2020)
• A Quick Mobilization on COVID-19 Research at Duke (Mar 18, 2020)
• Covering Zika: the Challenges of Reporting on a New Disease (Apr 14, 2016)
• Journalists To Discuss Challenges Of Covering Zika (Apr 11, 2016)
• More Investment Needed to Face Biosecurity Risks (Mar 27, 2016 | Duke Campaign Stop 2016)
• A blood test may soon tell if you really need antibiotics (Jan 21, 2016 | TIME)
• Do you need antibiotics? A new test may tell (Jan 21, 2016 | CBS News)
• Diagnostic developers target antibiotic resistance (Oct 20, 2015 | Nature)
• Bacterial or Viral? Diagnostic Tool May Help Doctors Track Infection Source (Oct 11, 2015)
• Liberian Alum Working in Home Country Reflects on Duke Global Health Training (Feb 4, 2015)
• DGHI Experts Brief US Congressional Staff on Ebola (Oct 6, 2014)
• Duke Experts Brief Community on the Origin and Risks of Ebola (Sep 24, 2014)
• Duke University hosts Ebola events (Sep 22, 2014 | The News & Observer)
• Duke to Hold Weeklong Series of Events on Ebola Epidemic (Sep 18, 2014)

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, vol 29 no. 3 (2008), pp. 197-202 [10.1086/528813] [abs].
• 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, vol 28 no. 8 (2007), pp. 951-958 [10.1086/519177] [abs].
• 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, vol 13 no. 6 (2007), pp. 938-941 [10.3201/eid1306.061337] [abs].
• 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, vol 45 no. 4 (2007), pp. 1357-1359 [10.1128/JCM.02091-06] [abs].
• 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, vol 100 no. 11 (2006), pp. 1063-1067 [10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.12.011] [abs].
• 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 : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol 43 no. 1 (2006), pp. 49-54 [10.1086/504804] [abs].
• Basnyat, B; Belbase, RH; Zimmerman, MD; Woods, CW; Reller, LB; Murdoch, DR, Clinical features of scrub typhus., Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol 42 no. 10 (2006), pp. 1505-1506 [10.1086/503680] [abs].
• Pien, BC; Saah, JR; Miller, SE; Woods, CW, 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, vol 42 no. 9 (2006), pp. 1311-1324 [10.1086/503260] [abs].
• Whitney, EAS; 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 (Larchmont, N.Y.), vol 6 no. 1 (2006), pp. 42-49 [10.1089/vbz.2006.6.42] [abs].
• 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 : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol 41 no. 3 (2005), pp. 406-409 [10.1086/431590] [abs].
• 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, vol 365 no. 9476 (2005) [10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66701-3] [abs].
• 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, vol 43 no. 5 (2005), pp. 2510-2512 [10.1128/JCM.43.5.2510-2512.2005] [abs].
• Fowler, VG; Justice, A; Moore, C; Benjamin, DK; Woods, CW; Campbell, S; Reller, LB; Corey, GR; Day, NPJ; Peacock, SJ, 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, vol 40 no. 5 (2005), pp. 695-703 [10.1086/427806] [abs].
• Joyce, M; Woods, CW, Antibacterial susceptibility testing in the clinical laboratory., Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, vol 18 no. 3 (2004), pp. 401-vii [10.1016/j.idc.2004.04.001] [abs].
• 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., The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol 70 no. 6 (2004), pp. 670-675 [abs].
• 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 : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol 38 no. 9 (2004), pp. 1243-1250 [10.1086/383313] [abs].
• 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, vol 41 no. 2 (2003), pp. 803-809 [10.1128/JCM.41.2.803-809.2003] [abs].
• 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 : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol 34 no. 12 (2002), pp. 1593-1599 [10.1086/340615] [abs].
• Hajjeh, RA; Relman, D; Cieslak, PR; Sofair, AN; Passaro, D; Flood, J; Johnson, J; Hacker, JK; Shieh, W-J; 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, vol 8 no. 2 (2002), pp. 145-153 [10.3201/eid0802.010165] [abs].
• 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, vol 8 no. 2 (2002), pp. 138-144 [10.3201/eid0802.010023] [abs].
• 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, vol 162 no. 1 (2002), pp. 90-94 [10.1001/archinte.162.1.90] [abs].
• 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., The Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol 181 no. 4 (2000), pp. 1428-1434 [10.1086/315401] [abs].
• 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 (London, England), vol 355 no. 9197 (2000), pp. 30-33 [10.1016/S0140-6736(99)03366-8] [abs].