
Assistant Adjunct Professor
M_PEDS-INFECTIOUS DISEASE
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Victoria Chu, MD, MPH is a pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist and hospital epidemiologist. Her research involved utilizing metagenomic sequencing to understand antimicrobial resistance acquisition and hospital-acquired infections. In addition, she serves as an Associate Medical Director of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention at Benioff Children's Hospital - San Francisco. In this role, she collaborates with the medical staff and ancillary services to address hospital-acquired infections and high-consequence special pathogens preparedness.
Clinically, Dr. Chu attends on the pediatric infectious diseases inpatient consult service at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, at both the Mission Bay and Oakland locations.
Publications
Integrating a host transcriptomic biomarker with a large language model for diagnosis of lower respiratory tract infection.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Oral obeldesivir provides postexposure protection against Marburg virus in nonhuman primates.
Nature medicine
Chronic Viral Reactivation and Associated Host Immune Response and Clinical Outcomes in Acute COVID-19 and Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
Microbial dynamics and pulmonary immune responses in COVID-19 secondary bacterial pneumonia.
Nature communications
Impact of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for sexually transmitted infections on the gut microbiome and antimicrobial resistome.
Nature medicine
Out-BREAK!: An IDWeek 2023 Escape Room to Break Out of the Educational Mold.
Open forum infectious diseases
Simultaneous detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes with the open source, cloud-based, CZ ID pipeline.
Research square
Doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for sexually transmitted infections impacts the gut antimicrobial resistome.
Research square
The antibiotic resistance reservoir of the lung microbiome expands with age in a population of critically ill patients.
Nature communications
Whole-genome sequencing rule-out of suspected hospital-onset Rhizopus outbreaks.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology
Household Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Alpha Variant-United States, 2021.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Risk Factors for New Neurologic Diagnoses in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: A Case-Control Study in New York City.
Neurology. Clinical practice
Examination of Common Coronavirus Antibodies in SARS-CoV-2-Infected and Uninfected Participants in a Household Transmission Investigation.
Open forum infectious diseases
Comparison of Home Antigen Testing With RT-PCR and Viral Culture During the Course of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
JAMA internal medicine
Household Transmission and Symptomology of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Alpha Variant among Children-California and Colorado, 2021.
The Journal of pediatrics
Coccidioidomycosis Cases at a Regional Referral Center, West Texas, USA, 2013-2019.
Emerging infectious diseases
Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) as a Biomarker of Abscopal Effect of Cryoablation in Breast Cancer: A Pilot Study.
Annals of surgical oncology
Outbreak of Acute Respiratory Illness Associated With Human Adenovirus Type 4 at the United States Coast Guard Academy, 2019.
The Journal of infectious diseases
Persistent SARS-CoV-2 RNA Shedding Without Evidence of Infectiousness: A Cohort Study of Individuals With COVID-19.
The Journal of infectious diseases
A Prospective Cohort Study in Nonhospitalized Household Contacts With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection: Symptom Profiles and Symptom Change Over Time.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Household Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 in the United States.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Author Correction: Pan-viral serology implicates enteroviruses in acute flaccid myelitis.
Nature medicine
Performance of existing and novel surveillance case definitions for COVID-19 in household contacts of PCR-confirmed COVID-19.
BMC public health
Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Children and Adolescents.
The New England journal of medicine
Factors Associated with Participation in Elementary School-Based SARS-CoV-2 Testing - Salt Lake County, Utah, December 2020-January 2021.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
Low SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Elementary Schools - Salt Lake County, Utah, December 3, 2020-January 31, 2021.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
Adolescent with COVID-19 as the Source of an Outbreak at a 3-Week Family Gathering - Four States, June-July 2020.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
Symptoms and Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Among Children - Utah and Wisconsin, March-May 2020.
Pediatrics
SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Infection Among Attendees of an Overnight Camp - Georgia, June 2020.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
Cryoablation: A promising non-operative therapy for low-risk breast cancer.
American journal of surgery
Investigation and Serologic Follow-Up of Contacts of an Early Confirmed Case-Patient with COVID-19, Washington, USA.
Emerging infectious diseases
First known person-to-person transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the USA.
Lancet (London, England)
Persons Evaluated for 2019 Novel Coronavirus - United States, January 2020.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
Increased Risk of Late-onset Streptococcus pneumoniae Meningitis in Adults With Prior Head or Spine Surgeries.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Possible Congenital Zika Syndrome in Older Children Due to Earlier Circulation of Zika Virus.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A
Avoiding S3 Valve Over-Sizing by Deployment Balloon Over-Filling: Impact on Rates of Permanent Pacemaker and Other Procedural Complications During TAVR.
The Journal of invasive cardiology
Acute management of dengue shock syndrome: a randomized double-blind comparison of 4 intravenous fluid regimens in the first hour.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America