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Athalia Christie
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 21
Citations - 1576
Athalia Christie is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ebola virus & Public health. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 19 publications receiving 1045 citations. Previous affiliations of Athalia Christie include Rocky Mountain Laboratories.
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Molecular Evidence of Sexual Transmission of Ebola Virus
Suzanne Mate,Jeffrey R. Kugelman,Tolbert Nyenswah,Jason T. Ladner,Michael R. Wiley,Thierry Cordier-Lassalle,Athalia Christie,Gary P. Schroth,Stephen M. Gross,Gloria Davies-Wayne,Shivam A. Shinde,Ratnesh Murugan,Sonpon B. Sieh,Moses Badio,Lawrence Fakoli,Fahn Taweh,Emmie de Wit,Neeltje van Doremalen,Vincent J. Munster,James Pettitt,Karla Prieto,Ben W. Humrighouse,Ute Ströher,Joseph W. Diclaro,Lisa E. Hensley,Randal J. Schoepp,David Safronetz,Joseph N. Fair,Jens H. Kuhn,David J. Blackley,A. Scott Laney,Desmond E. Williams,Terrence Lo,Alex Gasasira,Stuart T. Nichol,Pierre Formenty,Francis Kateh,Kevin M. De Cock,Fatorma K. Bolay,Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart,Gustavo Palacios +40 more
TL;DR: The genomes assembled from blood samples from the patient and a semen sample from the survivor were consistent with direct transmission of Ebola virus disease and provided evidence of sexual transmission of EBOV and evidence of the persistence of infective E BOV in semen for 179 days or more after the onset of EVD.
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Epidemiologic and Clinical Characteristics of Monkeypox Cases — United States, May 17–July 22, 2022
David H. Philpott,Christine M. Hughes,Karen A. Alroy,Janna L. Kerins,Jessica Pavlick,Lenore Asbel,Addie Crawley,Alexandra P. Newman,Hillary Spencer,Amanda Feldpausch,Kelly E. Cogswell,K. R. Davis,Jinlene Chen,Tiffany Henderson,Katherine R. Murphy,Meghan Barnes,Brandi Hopkins,Mary-Margaret A. Fill,Anil T. Mangla,Dana Perella,Arti Barnes,Scott Hughes,Jayne Griffith,Abby L. Berns,Lauren Milroy,Haley Blake,Maria M. Sievers,Melissa Marzan-Rodriguez,Marco E. Tori,Stephanie R. Black,Erik J. Kopping,Irene Ruberto,Angela M Maxted,Anuj Sharma,Kara D Tarter,Sydney A. Jones,Brooklynn R. White,Ryan Chatelain,M. Russo,Sarah Gillani,Ethan Bornstein,Stephen White,SA Johnson,Emma Ortega,Lori Saathoff-Huber,Anam Syed,Aprielle B. Wills,Bridget J. Anderson,Alexandra M. Oster,Athalia Christie,Jennifer H. McQuiston,Andrea M. McCollum,Agam K Rao,M. Negron,Isabel Griffin,Mohammed Iqbal Khan,Yasmin P Ogale,Emily Sims,R. Ryan Lash,Jeanette J. Rainey,Kelly Charniga,Michelle A Waltenburg,Patrick Dawson,Laura A S Quilter,Julie Rushmore,Mark Stenger,Rachel Kachur,Florence Whitehill,Kelly A. Jackson,James J. Collins,Kimberly Signs,Gillian Richardson,Julie Hand,Emily Spence-Davizon,Brandi L. Steidley,Matthew Osborne,Susan Soliva,S. S. Cook,Leslie Ayuk-Takor,Christina Willut,Alexandria Snively,Nicholas Lehnertz,Daniela N. Quilliam,M. J. Durham,I. Cardona-Gerena,Linda Bell,Environmental Control,Marina Kuljanin,Suzanne N. Gibbons-Burgener,Ryan P. Westergaard,Lynn E. Sosa,Monica Beddo,Matthew Donahue,Samir Koirala,Courtney M Dewart,Jade Murray-Thompson,L. Peake,Michelle Holshue,Atul Kothari,Jamie Ahlers,Lauren Usagawa,M. Cahill,Erin K Ricketts,Mike Mannell,Farah S Ahmed,Bethany Hodge,Brenton Nesemeier,Katherine Guinther,M. Anand,Jennifer L. White,Joel Ackelsberg,Ellen H. Lee,Devin Charlotte Raman,Carmen Elaine Brown,Nicole Burton,Sara Kate Johnson +115 more
TL;DR: Clinicians should test patients with rash consistent with monkeypox,† regardless of whether the rash is disseminated or was preceded by prodrome, and public health efforts should prioritize gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, who are currently disproportionately affected for prevention and testing.
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Possible sexual transmission of ebola virus — Liberia, 2015
Athalia Christie,Gloria Davies-Wayne,Thierry Cordier-Lasalle,David J. Blackley,A. Scott Laney,Desmond E. Williams,Shivam A. Shinde,Moses Badio,Terrence Lo,Suzanne Mate,Jason T. Ladner,Michael R. Wiley,Jeffrey R. Kugelman,Gustavo Palacios,Michael R. Holbrook,Krisztina Janosko,Emmie de Wit,Neeltje van Doremalen,Vincent J. Munster,James Pettitt,Randal J. Schoepp,Leen Verhenne,Iro Evlampidou,Karsor Kollie,Sonpon B. Sieh,Alex Gasasira,Fatorma K. Bolay,Francis Kateh,Tolbert Nyenswah,Kevin M. De Cock +29 more
TL;DR: CDC now recommends that contact with semen from male Ebola survivors be avoided until more information regarding the duration and infectiousness of viral shedding in body fluids is known, and if male survivors have sex, a condom should be used correctly and consistently every time.
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Summary of Guidance for Public Health Strategies to Address High Levels of Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and Related Deaths, December 2020.
Margaret A. Honein,Athalia Christie,Dale A. Rose,John T. Brooks,Dana Meaney-Delman,Amanda C. Cohn,Erin K. Sauber-Schatz,Allison Taylor Walker,L. Clifford McDonald,Leandris C. Liburd,Jeffrey E. Hall,Alicia M. Fry,Aron J. Hall,Neil Gupta,Wendi L. Kuhnert,Paula W. Yoon,Adi V. Gundlapalli,Michael J. Beach,Henry Walke +18 more
TL;DR: Individual persons, households, and communities should take these actions now to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission from its current high level and provide a bridge to a future with wide availability and high community coverage of effective vaccines.
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Guidance for Implementing COVID-19 Prevention Strategies in the Context of Varying Community Transmission Levels and Vaccination Coverage.
Athalia Christie,John T. Brooks,Lauri A. Hicks,Erin K. Sauber-Schatz,Jonathan S. Yoder,Margaret A. Honein +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the level of SARS-CoV-2 community transmission, health system capacity, vaccination coverage, capacity for early detection of increases in COVID-19 cases, and populations at increased risk for severe outcomes from CoV-19 conditions are considered.