Rebecca M. Harris, M.D.

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
Contact information
3401 Civic Center Blvd
5th Floor Main Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
5th Floor Main Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email:
harrisrm@email.chop.edu
harrisrm@email.chop.edu
Education:
B.S. (Biophysics)
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 2007.
MD
Medical University of South Carolina, 2011.
Permanent linkB.S. (Biophysics)
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 2007.
MD
Medical University of South Carolina, 2011.
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.