Department Affiliations
Associate Professor
Director of Microbiology
Interests
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases Pathology, Diagnostic Stewardship
Education and Training
BS, Medical Technology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 1999
MD, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, 2004
Residency, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, Colorado Springs, CO, 2008
Fellowship, Medical Microbiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2009
National Activities
Member, Microbiology Committee, College of American Pathologists
Member, Evidence Based Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines Committee, American Society of Microbiologists
Notable Publications
Karre T, Patel R. A Renal Transplant Patient with Psoas Fluid Collection. Clinical Microbiology Newsletter, Volume 31, Issue 23, Pages 182-183,1 Dec 2009
Karre T, Maguire HF, Butcher D, Graepler A, Weed D, Wilson ML. Comparison of Becton Dickinson Directigen EZ Flu A+B Test Against the CDC RT-PCR Assay for the Detection of 2009 Pandemic Influenza A/H1N1 Virus. J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Jan;48(1):343-4.
Karre T, Vetter EA, Mandrekar JN, PatelR. Comparison of Bacterial Antigen Test and Gram Stain for Detecting Classic Meningitis Bacteria in Cerebrospinal Fluid. J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Apr;48(4):1504-5.
Wilson J, Limper A, Grys T, Karre T, Wengenack N, Binnicker M. Pneumocystis jiroveci testing by Real-time PCR and Direct Examination among Immunocompetent and Immunosuppressed Patient Groups and Correlation to Disease Specificity. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2011 Feb;69(2):145-52.
Karre T, Sloan L, Patel R, Mandrekar J, Rosenblatt J. Comparison of Two Commercial Molecular Assays to a Laboratory Developed Molecular Assay for Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile Infection. J Clin Microbiol. 2011
Feb;49(2):725-7.
Nienaber J, McNamara D, Banerjee R, Pritt B, Karre T, Sohail M. Fulminant Gestational Hepatitis due to Primary Herpes Simplex Type 2 Infection: Use of serum HSV PCR for Non-Invasive Diagnosis. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2012. Feb;72(2):181-4.
Freifeld AG, Simonsen KA, Booth CS, Zhao X, Whitney SE, Karre T, Iwen P, Viljoen HJ. A new rapid method for Clostridium difficile DNA extraction and detection in stool: toward point-of-care diagnostic testing. J Mol Diagnos. 2012. 14(3):274-9
Karre T. Herpes Viruses. In: Pathology of Infectious Diseases, Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology. 2015. Pritt B, Procop G (eds.) Elesvier. Philadelphia, PA.
Kamboj M, Brite J, Aslam A, Kennington J, Babady NE, Calfee D, Furuya Y, Chen D, Augenbraun M, Ostrowsky B, Patel G, Mircescu M, Kak V, Tuma R, Karre TA, Fry DA, Duhaney YP, Moyer A, Mitchell D, Cantu S, Hsieh C, Warren N, Martin S, Willson J, Dickman J, Knight J, Delahanty K, Flood A, Harrington J, Korenstein D, Eagan J, Sepkowitz K. Artificial Differences in Clostridium difficile Infection Rates Associated with Disparity in Testing. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Mar;24(3):584-587.
Maloney P, Mowrer C, Jansen L, Karre T, Bedrnicek J, Obaro S, Iwen P, McCutchen E, Wetzel C, Frederick J, Ashraf M, Donahue M. Fatal Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis in Nebraska: Case Report and Environmental Investigation, August 2022. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Published online July 17, 2023.
