Karen Sue Kehl, Ph.D.
414-266-7260
414-266-2779
Dr. Kehl received her Ph.D. in Pathology from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1984. Her training was in Clinical Microbiology. She did a post-doctoral fellowship in Medical and Public Health Microbiology at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Clinical Campus 1984 - 1986. Dr. Kehl joined the Medical College of Wisconsin faculty in 1992.
Dr. Kehl is currently Associate Director of Clinical Pathology and Technical Director of Microbiology at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Her areas of research are in Shiga-toxin producing E. coli detection, Adenovirus infection, and the development of molecular methods for infectious disease diagnosis.
Recent publications:
Kehl, S.C., K.J. Henrickson, W. Hua, J. Fan. 2001. Evaluation of the Hexaplex Assay for detection of respiratory viruses in children. J. Clin. Microbiol. 39(5):1696-1701.
Kehl, Sue C., 2002. Role of the laboratory in the diagnosis of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli infections. J. Clin. Microbiol. 40(8):2711-2715.
Reed KD. Melski JW. Graham MB. Regnery RL. Sotir MJ. Wegner MV. Kazmierczak JJ. Stratman EJ. Li Y. Fairley JA. Swain GR. Olson VA. Sargent EK. Kehl SC. Frace MA. Kline R. Foldy SL. Davis JP. Damon IK. 2004. The detection of monkeypox in humans in the Western Hemisphere. New England Journal of Medicine. 350(4):342-50.
Khanna, M., J. Fan, K. Pehler-Harrington, C. Waters, P. Douglass, J. Stallock, S. Kehl and K.J. Henrickson. 2005. The Pneumoplex assays, a multiplex PCR-enzyme hybridization assay that allows simultaneous detection of five organisms, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydia (Chlamydophila) pneumoniae, Legionella pneumophila, Legionella micdadei, and Bordetella pertussis, and its real-time counterpart. J. Clin. Microbiol. 43(2):565-571.
Gray GC, McCarthy T, Lebeck MG, Schnurr DP, Russell KL, Kajon AE, Landry ML, Leland DS, Storch GA, Ginocchio CC, Robinson CC, Demmler GJ, Saubolle MA, Kehl SC, Selvarangan R, Miller MB, Chappell JD, Zerr DM, Kiska DL, Halstead DC, Capuano AW, Setterquist SF, Chorazy ML, Dawson JD, Erdman DD. 2007. Genotype prevalence and risk factors for clinical Adenovirus Infections, United States 2004 to 2006. Clin Infect Dis. 45;1120-1131.