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

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 2024 Notes: In Press.

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.

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