Karen Sue Kehl, PhD

Professor

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Locations

Pathology - Children's

Specialties

Pathology
Microbiology

Languages

English

Education

Biography

Dr. Kehl provides medical, scientific and technical direction for the departments of microbiology, virology and molecular infectious disease testing at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. She is responsible for the implementation of new assays and provides guidance to providers on test selection and interpretation of test results. Dr. Kehl is also an associate director of clinical pathology at Children’s Hospital. In that role, she provides oversight and direction of the quality management program. Dr. Kehl is the course director for the PGY-2 microbiology rotation. She provides training and oversight of the pathology residents in clinical microbiology. Additionally, she serves as a co-chair of the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Institutional Review Board.

Research Interests

Development and evaluation of molecular methods for the detection of agents of infectious disease

Study of Powassan virus epidemiology

Comparison of Upper Respiratory Viral Load Distributions in Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Children Diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Pediatric Hospital Testing Programs.

(Kociolek LK, Muller WJ, Yee R, Dien Bard J, Brown CA, Revell PA, Wardell H, Savage TJ, Jung S, Dominguez S, Parikh BA, Jerris RC, Kehl SC, Campigotto A, Bender JM, Zheng X, Muscat E, Linam M, Abuogi L, Smith C, Graff K, Hernandez-Leyva A, Williams D, Pollock NR.) J Clin Microbiol. 2020 12 17;59(1) PMID: 33093026 PMCID: PMC7771452 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85097028884 10/24/2020
Successful Treatment of Invasive Conidiobolus Infection During Therapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

(Erker C, Huppler AR, Walsh TJ, McCormick ME, Suchi M, Bhatt NS, Kehl SC, Southwood J, Harker-Murray P.) J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2018 10;40(7):e446-e449 PMID: 28991126 PMCID: PMC5904005 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85031495362 10/11/2017
A Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2018 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Society for Microbiology.

(Miller JM, Binnicker MJ, Campbell S, Carroll KC, Chapin KC, Gilligan PH, Gonzalez MD, Jerris RC, Kehl SC, Patel R, Pritt BS, Richter SS, Robinson-Dunn B, Schwartzman JD, Snyder JW, Telford S 3rd, Theel ES, Thomson RB Jr, Weinstein MP, Yao JD.) Clin Infect Dis. 2018 08 31;67(6):813-816 PMID: 30169655 09/01/2018
Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: Implementing a Quality Management System in the Medical Microbiology Laboratory

(Carey RB, Bhattacharyya S, Kehl SC, Matukas LM, Pentella MA, Salfinger M, Schuetz AN.) Clin Microbiol Rev. 2018 07;31(3) PMID: 29720490 PMCID: PMC6056841 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85047941100 05/04/2018
Development and Validation of a Serologic Test Panel for Detection of Powassan Virus Infection in U.S. Patients Residing in Regions Where Lyme Disease Is Endemic.

(Thomm AM, Schotthoefer AM, Dupuis AP 2nd, Kramer LD, Frost HM, Fritsche TR, Harrington YA, Knox KK, Kehl SC.) mSphere. 2018 Jan-Feb;3(1) PMID: 29359181 PMCID: PMC5760746 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85041524474 01/24/2018
Serologic Evidence of Powassan Virus Infection in Patients with Suspected Lyme Disease1.

(Frost HM, Schotthoefer AM, Thomm AM, Dupuis AP 2nd, Kehl SC, Kramer LD, Fritsche TR, Harrington YA, Knox KK.) Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 08;23(8):1384-1388 PMID: 28726610 PMCID: PMC5547799 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85025075990 07/21/2017
Global assessment of antimicrobial susceptibility among Gram-negative organisms collected from pediatric patients between 2004 and 2012: results from the Tigecycline Evaluation and Surveillance Trial.

(Kehl SC, Dowzicky MJ.) J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Apr;53(4):1286-93 PMID: 25653413 PMCID: PMC4365249 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84925267677 02/06/2015
Executive summary: a guide to utilization of the microbiology laboratory for diagnosis of infectious diseases: 2013 recommendations by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)(a).

(Baron EJ, Miller JM, Weinstein MP, Richter SS, Gilligan PH, Thomson RB Jr, Bourbeau P, Carroll KC, Kehl SC, Dunne WM, Robinson-Dunn B, Schwartzman JD, Chapin KC, Snyder JW, Forbes BA, Patel R, Rosenblatt JE, Pritt BS.) Clin Infect Dis. 2013 Aug;57(4):485-8 PMID: 23881727 PMCID: PMC3719893 07/25/2013
A guide to utilization of the microbiology laboratory for diagnosis of infectious diseases: 2013 recommendations by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)(a).

(Baron EJ, Miller JM, Weinstein MP, Richter SS, Gilligan PH, Thomson RB Jr, Bourbeau P, Carroll KC, Kehl SC, Dunne WM, Robinson-Dunn B, Schwartzman JD, Chapin KC, Snyder JW, Forbes BA, Patel R, Rosenblatt JE, Pritt BS.) Clin Infect Dis. 2013 Aug;57(4):e22-e121 PMID: 23845951 PMCID: PMC3719886 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84880939599 07/13/2013
Multicenter clinical evaluation of the portrait toxigenic C. difficile assay for detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile strains in clinical stool specimens.

(Buchan BW, Mackey TL, Daly JA, Alger G, Denys GA, Peterson LR, Kehl SC, Ledeboer NA.) J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Dec;50(12):3932-6 PMID: 23015667 PMCID: PMC3502949 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84869217890 09/28/2012
Evaluation of a rapid and completely automated real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assay for diagnosis of enteroviral meningitis.

(Nolte FS, Rogers BB, Tang YW, Oberste MS, Robinson CC, Kehl KS, Rand KA, Rotbart HA, Romero JR, Nyquist AC, Persing DH.) J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Feb;49(2):528-33 PMID: 21159942 PMCID: PMC3043510 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-79951494216 12/17/2010