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CAPriCORN Consortium
CAPriCORN Data Requests
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CAPriCORN Frequently Asked Questions
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Center for Community Health Equity
The Center for the Advancement of Women in Health Care at Rush
FAQs About Gender Equity in Health Care
History of Gender Equity at Rush
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Recent Achievements by RUSH Women
Regional Innovative Public Health Laboratory
Data
Publications
Researchers
Research Collaborations
CAPriCORN Consortium
CAPriCORN Data Requests
CAPriCORN Current Studies
CAPriCORN at RUSH Team
CAPriCORN Frequently Asked Questions
Resources
Center for Community Health Equity
The Center for the Advancement of Women in Health Care at Rush
FAQs About Gender Equity in Health Care
History of Gender Equity at Rush
Our Team
Recent Achievements by RUSH Women
Regional Innovative Public Health Laboratory
Data
Publications
Researchers

Reports to the public and additional data can be found on the Chicago Department of Public Health SARS-CoV-2 variant web page.

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  1. Crystal M. Gigante, PhD; Jade Takakuwa, MS; Daisy McGrath, MS; Chantal Kling; Todd G. Smith, PhD; Mengfei Peng; Kimberly Wilkins; Jacob M. Garrigues, PhD; Taylor Holly, MPH; Hannah Barbian, PhD; Alyse Kittner, MPH; Danielle Haydel; Emma Ortega, MPHTM; Gillian Richardson, MPH; Julie Hand; Jill K. Hacker, PhD; Alex Espinosa, MS; Monica Haw, MPH; Chantha Kath; Meilan Bielby, PhD; Kirstin Short, MPH; Kimberly Johnson, MS; Nelson De La Cruz; Whitni Davidson, MPH; Christine Hughes, MPH; Nicole M. Green, PhD; Nicolle Baird, PhD; Agam K. Rao, MD; Christina L. Hutson, PhD. Notes from the Field: Mpox Cluster Caused by Tecovirimat-Resistant Monkeypox Virus — Five States, October 2023–February 2024. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2024;73:903–905. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7340a3
  2. Erin R. Whitehouse, Nancy Gerloff, Randall English, Stacie K. Reckling, Mohammed A. Alazawi, Meghan Fuschino, Kirsten St George, Daniel Lang, Eli S. Rosenberg, Enoma Omoregie, Jennifer B. Rosen, Alyse Kitter, Colin Korban, Massimo Pacilli, Trisha Jeon, Joseph Coyle, Russell A. Faust, Irene Xagoraraki, Brijen Miyani, Charles Williams, James Wendt, Sarah M. Owens, Rosemarie Wilton, Rachel Poretsky, Lynn Sosa, Kathy Kudish, Manisha Juthani, Elizabeth F. Zaremski, Susan E. Kehler, Nagla S. Bayoumi, and Sarah Kidd. Wastewater Surveillance for Poliovirus in Selected Jurisdictions, United States, 2022–2023. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2024;30(11):2279-2287. doi:10.3201/eid3011.240771.
  3. Faherty EAG, Kling K, Barbian HJ, Qi C, Altman S, Dhiman VK, Teran R, Anderson K, Yuce D, Smith S, Richardson M, Vogelzang K, Ghinai I, Ruestow P, Heimler I, Menon A, Francois Watkins LK, Logan N, Kim DY, Pacilli M, Kerins J, Black S. Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Shigella sonnei Cluster Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Chicago, Illinois-July-October 2022. J Infect Dis. 2024 May 16:jiae235. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae235. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38752389.
  4. Faherty EAG, Holly T, Ogale YP, Spencer H, Becht AM, Crisler G, Wasz M, Stonehouse P, Barbian HJ, Zelinski C, Kittner A, Foulkes D, Anderson KW, Evans T, Nicolae L, Staton A, Hardnett C, Townsend MB, Carson WC, Panayampalli SS, Hutson CL, Gigante CM, Quilter LAS, Gorman S, Borah B, Black SR, Pacilli M, Kern D, Kerins J, McCollum AM, Rao AK, Tabidze I. Investigation of an mpox outbreak affecting many vaccinated persons in Chicago, IL-March 2023-June 2023. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Apr 3:ciae181. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciae181. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38567460.
  5. Barbian HJ, Kittner A, Teran R, Bobrovska S, Qiu X, English K, Green SJ, Ghinai I, Pacilli M, Hayden MK. A response playbook for early detection and population surveillance of new SARS-CoV-2 variants in a regional public health laboratory. BMC Public Health. 2024 Jan 2;24(1):59. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-17536-0. PMID: 38166805; PMCID: PMC10763119.
  6. Omicron in Chicago – Updated January 7, 2021
  7. Spencer H, Teran RA, Barbian HJ, Love S, Berg R, Black SR, Ghinai I, Kerins JL. Multistate Outbreak of Infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant after Event in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2021. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 Jun;28(6):1281-1283. doi: 10.3201/eid2806.220411. PMID: 35608888; PMCID: PMC9155870.
  8. Doyle K, Teran RA, Reefhuis J, Kerins JL, Qiu X, Green SJ, Choi H, Madni SA, Kamal N, Landon E, Albert RC, Pacilli M, Furtado LE, Hayden MK, Kunstman KJ, Bethel C, Megger L, Fricchione MJ, Ghinai I. Multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2 in a University Outbreak After Spring Break - Chicago, Illinois, March-May 2021. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2021 Sep 3;70(35):1195-1200. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7035a3. PMID: 34473687; PMCID: PMC8422867.
  9. Teran RA, Ghinai I, Gretsch S, Cable T, Black SR, Green SJ, Perez O, Chlipala GE, Maienschein-Cline M, Kunstman KJ, Bleasdale SC, Fricchione MJ. COVID-19 Outbreak Among a University's Men's and Women's Soccer Teams - Chicago, Illinois, July-August 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020 Oct 30;69(43):1591-1594. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6943e5. PMID: 34463672; PMCID: PMC7659918.
  10. Ghinai I, Davis ES, Mayer S, Toews KA, Huggett TD, Snow-Hill N, Perez O, Hayden MK, Tehrani S, Landi AJ, Crane S, Bell E, Hermes JM, Desai K, Godbee M, Jhaveri N, Borah B, Cable T, Sami S, Nozicka L, Chang YS, Jagadish A, Chee M, Thigpen B, Llerena C, Tran M, Surabhi DM, Smith ED, Remus RG, Staszcuk R, Figueroa E, Leo P, Detmer WM, Lyon E, Carreon S, Hoferka S, Ritger KA, Jasmin W, Nagireddy P, Seo JY, Fricchione MJ, Kerins JL, Black SR, Butler LM, Howard K, McCauley M, Fraley T, Arwady MA, Gretsch S, Cunningham M, Pacilli M, Ruestow PS, Mosites E, Avery E, Longcoy J, Lynch EB, Layden JE. Risk Factors for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection in Homeless Shelters in Chicago, Illinois-March-May, 2020. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 12;7(11):ofaa477. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa477. PMID: 33263069; PMCID: PMC7665740