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.
Education
Education
- 2007 - 2011
- Mayo Clinic, Virology and Gene Therapy
Fellowship
- 2013 - 2015
- Mayo Clinic, Microbiology
Awards & Recognition
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- Watch a short video about H5N1 Bird Flu- what it is, why it’s important, and how you can diagnose it (2025) https://youtu.be/IYRyFMjtL_4
- Hear a podcast about the nuances of NTM pulmonary disease and how to manage it (2025) https://febrilepodcast.com/episodes/, episode#122
- What is long COVID? Watch a short video for a 101 on the long-term effects of COVID (2023).” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLxDRL49J9k
- A brief video primer on Mpox (monkeypox) and how it spreads. https://asm.org/Videos/2022/June/What-Is-Monkeypox-How-Do-You-Catch-It-and-Is-T-1
Board Certification
2015: American Board of Medical Microbiology
Professional Memberships
American Society of Microbiology
Publications
- Selection of recent publications
- 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