Selected Publications

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 October 2023 Notes: In Press.

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.

Margaret G Mills, Emily Bruce, Meei-Li Huang, Jessica W Crothers, Ollivier Hyrien, Christopher A L Oura, Lemar Blake, Arianne Brown Jordan, Susan Hester, Leah Wehmas, Bernard Mari, Pascal Barby, Caroline Lacoux, Julien Fassy, Pablo Vial, Cecilia Vial, Jose R W Martinez, Olusola Olalekan Oladipo, Bitrus Inuwa, Ismaila Shittu, Clement A Meseko, Roger Chammas, Carlos Ferreira Santos, Thiago José Dionísio, Thais Francini Garbieri, Viviane Aparecida Parisi, Maria Cassia Mendes-Correa, Anderson V de Paula, Camila M Romano, Luiz Gustavo Bentim Góes, Paola Minoprio, Angelica C Campos, Marielton P Cunha, Ana Paula P Vilela, Tonney Nyirenda, Rajhab Sawasawa Mkakosya, Adamson S Muula, Rebekah E Dumm, Rebecca M Harris, Constance A Mitchell, Syril Pettit, Jason Botten, Keith R Jerome : An international, interlaboratory ring trial confirms the feasibility of an extraction-less “direct” RT-qPCR method for reliable detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in clinical samples. PLoS One 17(1), January 2022.

Rebekah E Dumm, Michael Elkan, Jeffrey Fink, Melissa Richard-Greenblatt, Amrom E Obstfeld, and Rebecca M Harris: Implementation of an Extraction-Free COVID Real-Time PCR Workflow in a Pediatric Hospital Setting. The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine 6(6): 1441-1451, November 2021.

Amalia Z Berna, Elikplim H Akaho, Rebecca M Harris, Morgan Congdon, Emilie Korn, Samuel Neher, Mirna M'Farrej, Julianne Burns, Audrey R Odom John: Reproducible Breath Metabolite Changes in Children with SARS-CoV-2 Infection. ACS Infectious Diseases 7(9): 2596-2603, September 2021.

Kathleen Chiotos, Giyoung Lee, Guy Sydney, Heather Wolfe, Jennifer Blumenthal, Hannah Stinson, Nancy McGowan, Julie Harab, Danielle Traynor, Aaditya Dudhia, Joseph Piccione, Jennalyn Burke, Ashley Doll, Garrett Keim, Charlotte Woods-Hill, Megan Jennings, Rebecca Harris, Jeffrey Gerber: Reducing Collection of Tracheal Aspirate Bacterial Cultures: A Diagnostic Test Stewardship Intervention (Poster). IDWeek - Virtual September 2021.