Rebecca M. Harris, M.D.

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Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director of the Infectious Disease Diagnostics Laboratory, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

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3401 Civic Center Blvd
5th Floor Main Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
B.S. (Biophysics)
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 2007.
MD
Medical University of South Carolina, 2011.
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Selected Publications

Ariel J Hernandez-Leyva, Anne L Rosen, Christopher P Tomera, Elaina E Lin, Elikplim H Akaho, Allison M Blatz, William R Otto, Joey Logan, Lisa R Young, Rebecca M Harris, Samantha A Whiteside, Andrew L Kau, Audrey R Odom John: Upper and lower airway microbiota across infancy and childhood. Pediatric Research March 2025.

Teresa K Yamana, Swetha Rajagopal, Donald C Hall Jr, Ahmed M Moustafa, Andries Feder, Azad Ahmed, Colleen Bianco, Rebecca Harris, Susan Coffin, Amy E Campbell, Sen Pei, Joshua Chang Mell, Paul J Planet, Jeffrey Shaman: A two-variant model of SARS-COV-2 transmission: estimating the characteristics of a newly emerging strain. BMC Infectious Diseases 24(1): 938, September 2024.

Kathleen Chiotos, Giyoung Lee, Guy Sydney, Charlotte Woods-Hill, Heather Wolfe, Hannah R. Stinson, Joseph Piccione, Jennifer Blumenthal, Garrett Keim, Danielle Traynor, Aaditya Dudhia, Ashley Doll, Rebecca M. Harris, Jeffrey Gerber: Impact of a tracheal aspirate culture diagnostic test stewardship intervention in a tertiary care PICU. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 45(8): 943-951, August 2024.

Srushti Patel, Pierre Russo, Rebecca M. Harris, Kelly Maurer, Lijuan Hao, Rachell Suzanne Beard, Ludmila Perelygina, Kathleen E Sullivan: Surveillance for rubella virus in samples obtained from non-immunodeficient individuals. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology 35(1), January 2024.

Eimear Kitt, Hee-won Yoon, Courtney E. Comar, Kenneth P. Smith, Rebecca Harris, Mathew D. Esona, Rashi Gautam, Slavica Mijatovic-Rustempasic, Amy Hopkins, Jose Jaimes, Lori K. Handy : Genotypic Investigation of a Rotavirus Cluster at a Quaternary Pediatric Hospital. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 44(10): 1680-1682, October 2023.

Jameson Dowling, Sarah Smathers, Daphne Werz, Kenneth Smith, Rebecca Harris, Cecelia Harrison, Julia Sammons, Ericka Hayes: Persistent Increased Invasive Pediatric Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus) Infections with Correlated Increase in Superficial Infection and Pharyngitis (Poster). IDWeek - Boston, Massachusetts October 2023.

Catherine A Chapin, Tamir Diamond, Rebecca M Harris, Olivia Vaccaro, Kathleen Loomes, Estella M Alonso, Edward M Behrens: Adenovirus is not detected in liver tissue from a historical multicenter cohort of children with acute liver failure Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 77(3): 393-395, September 2023.

Rebecca M Harris, Kenneth P Smith: Listeria and Erysipelothrix. Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 13th Edition. ASM Press, 1, 2023 Notes: In Press.

Catherine A. Chapin, Kathleen M Loomes, Tamir Diamond, Rebecca M. Harris, Olivia Vaccaro, Katie Neighbors, Edward M Behrens: Adenovirus is not detected in liver tissue from a large multicenter cohort of children with acute liver failure (Poster). The Liver Meeting - Washington, DC. American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, November 2022.

Hee-won Yoon, Eimear Kitt, Kenneth Smith, Courtney Comar, Rebecca Harris, Amy Hopkins, Jose Jaimes, Slavica Mijatovic Rustempasic, Rashi Gautam, Mathew D. Esona, Lori Handy: Genotypic investigation of a rotavirus cluster at a pediatric hospital in 2022 (Poster). IDWeek - Washington, DC October 2022.

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