Reeti Khare, PhD
Reeti Khare, PhD, D(ABMM) is a clinical microbiologist at National Jewish Health. Dr. Khare serves as the Director of the Infectious Disease Laboratory, which includes Mycobacteriology and Microbiology.
- Director, Infectious Disease Laboratory
- Advanced Diagnostic Laboratories
Education
Education
- 2007 - 2011
- Mayo Clinic, Virology and Gene Therapy
Fellowship
- 2013 - 2015
- Mayo Clinic, Microbiology
Board Certification
2015: American Board of Medical Microbiology
Professional Memberships
American Society of Microbiology
Publications
Selection of recent publications
- Performance of a targeted next generation sequencing assay for mycobacterial identification and drug resistance from sputum and isolates
- Omadacycline Monotherapy in Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease Caused by Mycobacterium abscessus: Results From a Phase 2, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Study
- A systematic review of tetracyclines for nontuberculous mycobacteria: focus on rapidly growing mycobacteria
- The First Reported Case of Mycobacterium shinjukuense Pulmonary Disease from China
- Diagnosis and Management of Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Infections in Cold-stunned Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys kempii): 16 CASES (2008-2023)
- Mycobacterium nebraskense Isolated from Patients in Connecticut and Oregon, USA
- Nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease: patients, principles, and prospects
- MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry from nucleic acid: development and evaluation of a novel platform for identification of mycobacteria and detection of genetic markers of resistance
- Improved recovery of nontuberculous mycobacteria in culture with adjunctive use of a selective agar
- Notes from the Field: Potential Outbreak of Extrapulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus subspecies massiliense Infections from Stem Cell Treatment Clinics in Mexico—Arizona and Colorado, 2022
- Mycobacterium senegalense Infection in Kidney Transplant Patient with Diabetes, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- In vitro susceptibility patterns for slowly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria in the USA from 2018 to 2022
- Culture, identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteria
- Mycobacterium abscessus subspecies identification using the Deeplex Myc-TB targeted NGS assay
- In vitro susceptibility patterns for rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacteria in the United States
Teaching & Professional Positions
- Watch a short video about H5N1 Bird Flu- what it is, why it’s important, and how you can diagnose it (2025)
- What is long COVID? Watch a short video for a 101 on the long-term effects of COVID (2023).”
- Watch a brief video primer on Mpox (monkeypox) and how it spreads
- Hear a podcast about the nuances of NTM pulmonary disease and how to manage it (2025) https://febrilepodcast.com/episodes/episode#122