Dr. Edward Alex Graviss

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The Texas A&M Health Science Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Medicine
Pathology
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 2002
The Texas A&M Health Science Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Medicine
Medicine
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 2002

Mailing Address

Department of Pathology (209E)
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, Texas 77030-3498
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (713) 798-8097
Fax: (713) 798-8895
egraviss@bcm.tmc.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Texas - Houston Health Science Center, Epidemiology, 1993.
M.P.H., University of Texas - Houston Health Science Center, Community Health, 1986.
M.S., University of Texas at San Antonio, Biology, 1982.
B.S., Texas Tech University, Microbiology, 1979.

Expertise and Research Interests

Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Tuberculosis Molecular Epidemiology

Future Research

Human Susceptibility to Tuberculosis

Keywords

COS Keywords:

AIDS, Epidemiology, Health and Medicine, Health and Safety Education, HIV, Infectious Diseases Or Agents.

Additional Terms:

Epidemiologic Methods, Epidemiologic Surveillance, HIV/AIDS, Mycobacteriology, Tuberculosis.

Memberships

American Public Health Association
American Society for Microbiology
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
Infectious Diseases Society of America
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Previous Positions

1998-2002, Assistant Professor, The Texas A&M Health Science Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Medicine, Medicine
1998-2002, Assistant Professor, The Texas A&M Health Science Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Medicine, Pathology
1991, Graduate Research Assistant, CDC Community Base HIV/AIDS Minority Outreach Program
1990-1994, Graduate Assistant II, AIDS Education and Training Center
1979-1989, Microbiology Technologist, Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital - San Antonio

Funding Received

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: TO8: An Analysis of Molecular Epidemiology of Multidrug-Resistant M. tuberculosis in the United States., $109,000, 2005 to 2009.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: TO9: Preventing Tuberculosis in the Foreign-Born in the United States and Canada. Principal Investigator, $208,610, 2004 to 2007.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: 2000-N-00073. Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Consortium - TDH, $1,300,000, 2001 to 2011.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Support for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Studies, $8,726,577, 2000 to 2005.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Genetic Epidemiology of Tuberculosis Susceptibility, 2,480,000, 1997 to 2003.

Publications

  • Shelburne SA, Visnegarwala F, Darcourt J, Graviss EA, Giordano TP, White AC Jr, Hamill RJ, Incidence and Risk Factors for Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome During Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy., Aids (london, England), 19(4), 399-406, Mar 2005 Abstract
  • Conger NG, O'Connell RJ, Laurel VL, Olivier KN, Graviss EA, Williams-Bouyer N, Zhang Y, Brown-Elliott BA, Wallace RJ Jr, Mycobacterium Simae Outbreak Associated With a Hospital Water Supply., Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology : the Official Journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America., 25(12), 1050-5, Dec 2004 Abstract
  • Zhang Y, Yakrus MA, Graviss EA, Williams-Bouyer N, Turenne C, Kabani A, Wallace RJ Jr, Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis Study of Mycobacterium Abscessus Isolates Previously Affected By DNA Degradation., Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 42(12), 5582-7, Dec 2004 Abstract
  • Shukla SK, Stemper ME, Ramaswamy SV, Conradt JM, Reich R, Graviss EA, Reed KD, Molecular Characteristics of Nosocomial and Native American Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Clones From Rural Wisconsin., Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 42(8), 3752-7, Aug 2004 Abstract
  • Shukla SK, Ramaswamy SV, Conradt J, Stemper ME, Reich R, Reed KD, Graviss EA, Novel Polymorphisms in Mec Genes and a New Mec Complex Type In Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Isolates Obtained in Rural Wisconsin., Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 48(8), 3080-5, Aug 2004 Abstract
  • Post FA, Willcox PA, Mathema B, Steyn LM, Shean K, Ramaswamy SV, Graviss EA, Shashkina E, Kreiswirth BN, Kaplan G, Genetic Polymorphism in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Isolates From Patients With Chronic Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis., The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 190(1), 99-106, Jul 2004 Abstract
  • El Sahly HM, Wright JA, Soini H, Bui TT, Williams-Bouyer N, Escalante P, Musser JM, Graviss EA, Recurrent Tuberculosis in Houston, Texas: a Population-based Study., The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease : the Official Journal of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease., 8(3), 333-40, Mar 2004 Abstract
  • Ramaswamy SV, Dou SJ, Rendon A, Yang Z, Cave MD, Graviss EA, Genotypic Analysis of Multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Isolates From Monterrey, Mexico., Journal of Medical Microbiology, 53(Pt 2), 107-13, Feb 2004 Abstract
  • Koreen L, Ramaswamy SV, Graviss EA, Naidich S, Musser JM, Kreiswirth BN, Spa Typing Method for Discriminating Among Staphylococcus Aureus Isolates: Implications for Use of a Single Marker to Detect Genetic Micro- And Macrovariation., Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 42(2), 792-9, Feb 2004 Abstract
  • El Sahly HM, Reich RA, Dou SJ, Musser JM, Graviss EA, The Effect of Mannose Binding Lectin Gene Polymorphisms on Susceptibility to Tuberculosis in Different Ethnic Groups., Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 36(2), 106-8, 2004 Abstract
  • Giordano TP, Soini H, Teeter LD, Adams GJ, Musser JM, Graviss EA, Relating the Size of Molecularly Defined Clusters of Tuberculosis to The Duration of Symptoms., Clinical Infectious Diseases : An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America., 38(1), 10-6, Jan 2004 Abstract
  • Visnegarwala F, Graviss EA, Sajja P, Lahart CJ, White AC Jr, Determinants of Sustained Virological Suppression in Indigent, HIV-infected Patients: Is Single Protease Inhibitor-based Antiretroviral Therapy Truly Highly Active?, Hiv Clinical Trials, 5(3), 117-24, May-Jun 2004 Abstract
  • Gonzalez OY, Adams G, Teeter LD, Bui TT, Musser JM, Graviss EA, Extra-pulmonary Manifestations in a Large Metropolitan Area With a Low Incidence of Tuberculosis., The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease : the Official Journal of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease., 7(12), 1178-85, Dec 2003 Abstract
  • Gonzalez OY, Teeter LD, Thanh BT, Musser JM, Graviss EA, Extrathoracic Tuberculosis Lymphadenitis in Adult HIV Seronegative Patients: a Population-based Analysis in Houston, Texas, USA., The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease : the Official Journal of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease., 7(10), 987-93, Oct 2003 Abstract
  • Ma X, Reich RA, Gonzalez O, Pan X, Fothergill AK, Starke JR, Teeter LD, Musser JM, Graviss EA, No Evidence for Association Between the Polymorphism in the 3' Untranslated Region of Interleukin-12B and Human Susceptibility To Tuberculosis., The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 188(8), 1116-8, Oct 2003 Abstract
  • Giordano TP, Wright JA, Hasan MQ, White AC Jr, Graviss EA, Visnegarwala F, Do Sex and Race/ethnicity Influence CD4 Cell Response in Patients Who Achieve Virologic Suppression During Antiretroviral Therapy?, Clinical Infectious Diseases : An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America., 37(3), 433-7, Aug 2003 Abstract
  • Ma X, Reich RA, Wright JA, Tooker HR, Teeter LD, Musser JM, Graviss EA, Association Between Interleukin-8 Gene Alleles and Human Susceptibility To Tuberculosis Disease., The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 188(3), 349-55, Aug 2003 Abstract
  • Ramaswamy SV, Reich R, Dou SJ, Jasperse L, Pan X, Wanger A, Quitugua T, Graviss EA, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Genes Associated With Isoniazid Resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis., Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 47(4), 1241-50, Apr 2003 Abstract
  • Giordano TP, White AC Jr, Sajja P, Graviss EA, Arduino RC, Adu-Oppong A, Lahart CJ, Visnegarwala F, Factors Associated With the Use of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy In Patients Newly Entering Care in An Urban Clinic., Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999), 32(4), 399-405, Apr 2003 Abstract
  • Mirza SA, Phelan M, Rimland D, Graviss E, Hamill R, Brandt ME, Gardner T, Sattah M, de Leon GP, Baughman W, Hajjeh RA, The Changing Epidemiology of Cryptococcosis: An Update From Population-based Active Surveillance in 2 Large Metropolitan Areas, 1992-2000., Clinical Infectious Diseases : An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America., 36(6), 789-94, Mar 2003 Abstract
  • Gonzalez OY, Musher DM, Brar I, Furgeson S, Boktour MR, Septimus EJ, Hamill RJ, Graviss EA, Spectrum of Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) Infection After Intravesical BCG Immunotherapy., Clinical Infectious Diseases : An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America., 36(2), 140-8, Jan 2003 Abstract
  • Nunez-Gussman J, Starke J, Correa A, Graviss EA, Pan X, Popek E, Metry D, A Report of Cutaneous Tuberculosis in Siblings., Pediatric Dermatology, 20(5), 404-7, Sep-Oct 2003 Abstract
  • Gutacker MM, Smoot JC, Migliaccio CA, Ricklefs SM, Hua S, Cousins DV, Graviss EA, Shashkina E, Kreiswirth BN, Musser JM, Genome-wide Analysis of Synonymous Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms In Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Complex Organisms: Resolution of Genetic Relationships Among Closely Related Microbial Strains., Genetics, 162(4), 1533-43, Dec 2002 Abstract
  • El Sahly HM, Septimus E, Soini H, Septimus J, Wallace RJ, Pan X, Williams-Bouyer N, Musser JM, Graviss EA, Mycobacterium Simiae Pseudo-outbreak Resulting From a Contaminated Hospital Water Supply in Houston, Texas., Clinical Infectious Diseases : An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America., 35(7), 802-7, Oct 2002 Abstract
  • Ma X, Wright J, Dou S, Olsen P, Teeter L, Adams G, Graviss E, Ethnic Divergence and Linkage Disequilibrium of Novel SNPs in the Human NLI-IF Gene: Evidence of Human Origin and Lack of Association With Tuberculosis Susceptibility., Journal of Human Genetics, 47(3), 140-5, 2002 Abstract
  • Visnegarwala F, Graviss EA, Lacke CE, Dural AT, Johnson PC, Atmar RL, Hamill RJ, Acute respiratory failure associated with cryptococcosis in patients with AIDS: analysis of predictive factors., Clinical Infectious Diseases, 27(5), 1231-7, November 1998 Abstract
  • Spindel S J, Lacke C E, Pellegrino C R, Graviss E A, Hamill R J, Noncandidal fungal peritonitis in patients with AIDS: report of three cases and review., Clinical Infectious Diseases, 24(2), 279-80, February 1997 Abstract
  • Hashmey, R., Smith, N.H., Cron, S., Graviss, E.A., Chappell, C.L., White, Jr., A.C., Cryptosporidiosis in Houston, Texas: A Report of 95 Cases, Medicine, 76(2), 118-139, 1997
  • Musher, D.M., Groover, J.E., Watson, D.A., Pandey, J.P., Rodriguez-Barradas, M.C., Baughn, R.E., Pollack, M.S., Graviss, E.A., de Andrade, M., Amos, C.I., et. al., Genetic Regulation of the Capacity to Make Immunoglobulin G to Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharides, Journal of Investigative Medicine, 45(2), 57-68, 1997
  • Spindel, S.J., Lacke, C.E., Pellegrino, C.R., Graviss, E.A. and Hamill, Richard J, Noncandidal Fungal Peritonitis in Patients with AIDS: Report of Three Cases Review, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 24, 279-80, 1997
  • Brandt M E, Pfaller M A, Hajjeh R A, Graviss E A, Rees J, Spitzer E D, Pinner R W, Mayer L W, Molecular subtypes and antifungal susceptibilities of serial Cryptococcus neoformans isolates in human immunodeficiency virus-associated Cryptococcosis. Cryptococcal Disease Active Surveillance Group., Journal of Infectious Diseases, 174(4), 812-20, October 1996 Abstract
  • Brandt M E, Hutwagner L C, Klug L A, Baughman W S, Rimland D, Graviss E A, Hamill R J, Thomas C, Pappas P G, Reingold A L, Pinner R W, Molecular subtype distribution of Cryptococcus neoformans in four areas of the United States. Cryptococcal Disease Active Surveillance Group., Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 34(4), 912-7, April 1996 Abstract
  • Brandt, M.E., Pfaller, M.A., Hajjeh, R.A., Graviss, E.A., Rees, J., Spitzer, E.D., Pinner, R.W., Mayer, L.W., and the Cryptococcal Disease Active Surveillance Group, Molecular Subtypes and Antifungal Susceptibilities of Serial C. Neoformans Isolates in HIV-Associated Cryptococcosis, Journal of Infectious Diseases, 174, 812-820, 1996
  • Grimes, R.M., Grimes, D.E., Graviss, E.A., Tuberculosis Control in Healthcare Workers: An Algorithimc Approach, American Journal of Infection Control, 24(2), 70-78, 1996

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