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Dr. Selvarangan is the Director of the Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Infectious Diseases Laboratory in Children’s Mercy Hospital accredited by College of American Pathologists. He has more than fifteen years of experience with directorship of high complexity clinical laboratory testing and research in the area of laboratory test evaluation and selection for implementation in routine clinical care. His research area encompasses advanced diagnostics for infectious diseases, epidemiology of infections in children, vaccine related studies, biomarker discovery and host response to infections and interventions to improve patient care and outcomes. His clinical research experience also includes federal funding and more than 100 clinical trials supported by In vitro diagnostic industry. His research team specializes in large volume prospective enrollment of children in clinical trials for infectious diseases in outpatient and inpatient settings. As the founding Principal Investigator of Kansas City-New Vaccine Surveillance Network (KC-NVSN) program since 2009, sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he has direct working knowledge on establishment and collaboration of multisite national networks.

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Item Type	Name
Concept	Adenovirus Infections, Human
Concept	Adenoviruses, Human
Concept	Humans
Concept	Influenza, Human
Concept	Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human
Concept	Herpesvirus 1, Human
Concept	Enterovirus D, Human
Concept	Tertiary Care Centers
Academic Article	Genetic commonality of macrolide-resistant group A beta hemolytic streptococcus pharyngeal strains.
Academic Article	False-positive results of Campylobacter rapid antigen testing.
Academic Article	Mycoplasma edwardii peritonitis in a patient on maintenance peritoneal dialysis.
Academic Article	No evidence of vancomycin minimal inhibitory concentration creep or heteroresistance identified in pediatric Staphylococcus aureus blood isolates.
Academic Article	Prevalence of 3 sexually transmitted infections in a pediatric emergency department.
Academic Article	Enterovirus d68. A focused review and clinical highlights from the 2014 U.S. Outbreak.
Academic Article	Severe enterovirus 68 respiratory illness in children requiring intensive care management.
Academic Article	Severe respiratory illness associated with a nationwide outbreak of enterovirus D68 in the USA (2014): a descriptive epidemiological investigation.
Academic Article	Molecular Evolution and Intraclade Recombination of Enterovirus D68 during the 2014 Outbreak in the United States.
Academic Article	Reducing Overutilization of Testing for Clostridium difficile Infection in a Pediatric Hospital System: A Quality Improvement Initiative.
Academic Article	Clinical variables and Staphylococcus aureus virulence factors associated with venous thromboembolism in children.
Academic Article	Integrating a Rapid Diagnostic Test and Antimicrobial Stewardship: Optimizing Discharge Antibiotics in Skin and Soft Tissue Infections.
Academic Article	Clinical Course of Enterovirus D68 in Hospitalized Children.
Academic Article	Evaluating the Impact of Implementing a Clinical Practice Guideline for Febrile Infants With Positive Respiratory Syncytial Virus or Enterovirus Testing.
Academic Article	Outcome of children with rhinovirus detection prior to allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant.
Academic Article	Disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in sickle cell anemia patients.
Academic Article	Treatment outcomes for nontuberculous mycobacterial cervicofacial lymphadenitis in children based on the type of surgical intervention.
Academic Article	Comparison of BD Directigen EZ RSV and Binax NOW RSV tests for rapid detection of respiratory syncytial virus from nasopharyngeal aspirates in a pediatric population.
Academic Article	Susceptibilities of Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, including serotype 19A, and Moraxella catarrhalis paediatric isolates from 2005 to 2007 to commonly used antibiotics.
Academic Article	Evaluation of three analyte-specific reagents for detection and typing of herpes simplex virus in cerebrospinal fluid.
Academic Article	Mycobacterium sherrisii sp. nov., a slow-growing non-chromogenic species.
Academic Article	Evaluation of three influenza A and B real-time reverse transcription-PCR assays and a new 2009 H1N1 assay for detection of influenza viruses.
Academic Article	Decay-accelerating factor and cytoskeleton redistribution pattern in HeLa cells infected with recombinant Escherichia coli strains expressing Dr family of adhesins.
Academic Article	Human parechovirus 3 causing sepsis-like illness in children from midwestern United States.
Academic Article	Improving surveillance for pediatric Clostridium difficile infection: derivation and validation of an accurate case-finding tool.
Academic Article	Reducing blood culture contamination in a pediatric emergency department.
Academic Article	Molecular epidemiology and clinical presentation of human adenovirus infections in Kansas City children.
Academic Article	Family of Escherichia coli Dr adhesins: decay-accelerating factor receptor recognition and invasiveness.
Academic Article	Characterization of AfaE adhesins produced by extraintestinal and intestinal human Escherichia coli isolates: PCR assays for detection of Afa adhesins that do or do not recognize Dr blood group antigens.
Academic Article	Rapid receptor-clustering assay to detect uropathogenic and diarrheal Escherichia coli isolates bearing adhesins of the Dr family.
Academic Article	Rapid identification of commonly encountered Candida species directly from blood culture bottles.
Academic Article	Interaction of Dr adhesin with collagen type IV is a critical step in Escherichia coli renal persistence.
Academic Article	Human parechovirus in respiratory specimens from children in Kansas City, Missouri.
Academic Article	Characteristics of young infants in whom human parechovirus, enterovirus or neither were detected in cerebrospinal fluid during sepsis evaluations.
Academic Article	Comparison of the BD Veritor System for Flu A+B with the Alere BinaxNOW influenza A&B card for detection of influenza A and B viruses in respiratory specimens from pediatric patients.
Academic Article	Routine laboratory testing data for surveillance of rotavirus hospitalizations to evaluate the impact of vaccination.
Academic Article	Genotype prevalence and risk factors for severe clinical adenovirus infection, United States 2004-2006.
Academic Article	Reply to "new rapid diagnostic tests: a real improvement for clinical use?".
Academic Article	Role of nursing unit factors on performance of phlebotomy and subsequent blood culture contamination rates.
Academic Article	Innate Susceptibility to Norovirus Infections Influenced by FUT2 Genotype in a United States Pediatric Population.
Academic Article	Head-to-head comparison of the diagnostic accuracies of BD Veritor? System RSV and Quidel? Sofia? RSV FIA systems for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) diagnosis.
Academic Article	BD Veritor System Respiratory Syncytial Virus Rapid Antigen Detection Test: Point-of-Care Results in Primary Care Pediatric Offices Compared With Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction and Viral Culture Methods.
Academic Article	The human Parechoviruses: an overview.
Academic Article	Demographics and microbiology of otorrhea through patent tubes failing ototopical and/or oral antibiotic therapy.
Academic Article	Molecular methods and platforms for infectious diseases testing a review of FDA-approved and cleared assays.
Academic Article	Detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile in pediatric stool samples: an evaluation of Quik Check Complete Antigen assay, BD GeneOhm Cdiff PCR, and ProGastro Cd PCR assays.
Academic Article	Clindamycin-susceptibility Rates of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Varies by Infection Type in Pediatric Patients.
Academic Article	A longitudinal case series description of meningitis due to Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus in infants.
Academic Article	Rotavirus Strain Trends During the Postlicensure Vaccine Era: United States, 2008-2013.
Academic Article	Evaluation of xTAG Respiratory Viral Panel FAST and xTAG Human Parainfluenza Virus Analyte-Specific Reagents for detection of human parainfluenza viruses in respiratory specimens.
Academic Article	Utility of a focused vancomycin-resistant enterococci screening protocol to identify colonization in hospitalized children.
Academic Article	Optimization of a combined human parechovirus-enterovirus real-time reverse transcription-PCR assay and evaluation of a new parechovirus 3-specific assay for cerebrospinal fluid specimen testing.
Academic Article	Antibiotic Prophylaxis Is Associated with Subsequent Resistant Infections in Children with an Initial Extended-Spectrum-Cephalosporin-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Infection.
Academic Article	The Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Extended-Spectrum Cephalosporin- and Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae at 4 US Pediatric Hospitals.
Academic Article	Severe Parechovirus 3 Infections in Young Infants-Kansas and Missouri, 2014.
Academic Article	Effectiveness of pentavalent and monovalent rotavirus vaccines in concurrent use among US children <5 years of age, 2009-2011.
Academic Article	Microbiology and antimicrobial treatment of pediatric cervical lymphadenitis requiring surgical intervention.
Academic Article	Bordetella parapertussis bacteremia: two case reports.
Academic Article	Multicenter clinical evaluation of the novel Alere? i Influenza A&B isothermal nucleic acid amplification test.
Academic Article	Multicenter clinical performance evaluation of BD Veritor? system for rapid detection of respiratory syncytial virus.
Academic Article	Evaluation of RIDA?GENE norovirus GI/GII real time RT-PCR using stool specimens collected from children and adults with acute gastroenteritis.
Academic Article	Evaluation of the illumigene Mycoplasma Direct DNA Amplification Assay.
Academic Article	Evaluation of the Alere I influenza A&B nucleic acid amplification test by use of respiratory specimens collected in viral transport medium.
Academic Article	Severe respiratory illness associated with enterovirus D68 - Missouri and Illinois, 2014.
Academic Article	Evaluation of 3 analyte-specific reagents for detection of Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis in clinical specimens.
Academic Article	Factors Associated With Rotavirus Vaccine Coverage.
Academic Article	Macrolide-Resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae, United States.
Academic Article	Evidence for Household Transmission of Rotavirus in the United States, 2011-2016.
Academic Article	Emergence of Parechovirus A4 Central Nervous System Infections among Infants in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Academic Article	Neutralizing Antibody against Enterovirus D68 in Children and Adults before 2014 Outbreak, Kansas City, Missouri, USA1.
Academic Article	Epidemiologic Association Between FUT2 Secretor Status and Severe Rotavirus Gastroenteritis in Children in the United States.
Academic Article	Comparison of Molecular Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Specimens Collected from the United States and China.
Academic Article	Long-term Consistency in Rotavirus Vaccine Protection: RV5 and RV1 Vaccine Effectiveness in US Children, 2012-2013.
Academic Article	Comparison of three multiplex gastrointestinal platforms for the detection of gastroenteritis viruses.
Academic Article	Intestinal Carriage of Third-Generation Cephalosporin-Resistant and Extended-Spectrum ?-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Healthy US Children.
Academic Article	Antifungal azoles itraconazole and posaconazole exhibit potent in vitro antiviral activity against clinical isolates of parechovirus A3 (Picornaviridae).
Academic Article	Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of the Alere i Respiratory Syncytial Virus Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Assay.
Academic Article	Multicenter evaluation of the Alere? i influenza A&B assay using respiratory specimens collected in viral transport media.
Academic Article	Viral Etiology of Acute Gastroenteritis in <2-Year-Old US Children in the Post-Rotavirus Vaccine Era.
Academic Article	Comparison of Six Sample-to-Answer Influenza A/B and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Nucleic Acid Amplification Assays Using Respiratory Specimens from Children.
Academic Article	Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of the Automated Aries Group A Strep PCR Assay from Throat Swabs.
Academic Article	Impact of multiplex molecular assay turn-around-time on antibiotic utilization and clinical management of hospitalized children with acute respiratory tract infections.
Academic Article	Seroepidemiology of Parechovirus A3 Neutralizing Antibodies, Australia, the Netherlands, and United States.
Academic Article	Dr fimbriae operon of uropathogenic Escherichia coli mediate microtubule-dependent invasion to the HeLa epithelial cell line.
Academic Article	Structure-function analysis of decay-accelerating factor: identification of residues important for binding of the Escherichia coli Dr adhesin and complement regulation.
Academic Article	Enterovirus D68-Associated Acute Respiratory Illness - New Vaccine Surveillance Network, United States, July-October, 2017 and 2018.
Academic Article	Evaluation of BacterioScan 216Dx in Comparison to Urinalysis as a Screening Tool for Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections in Children.
Academic Article	Comparative analysis of Four sample-to-answer influenza A/B and RSV nucleic acid amplification assays using adult respiratory specimens.
Academic Article	Macrolide-Resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae in the United States as Determined from a National Surveillance Program.
Grant	Kansas City - New Vaccine Surveillance Network (KC-NVSN)
Academic Article	Infectious Causes of Acute Gastroenteritis in US Children Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant: A Longitudinal, Multicenter Study.
Academic Article	Association of Rotavirus Vaccination With Inpatient and Emergency Department Visits Among Children Seeking Care for Acute Gastroenteritis, 2010-2016.
Academic Article	Enterovirus D68 outbreak detection through a syndromic disease epidemiology network.
Academic Article	Validation of Acute Gastroenteritis-related International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification Codes in Pediatric and Adult US Populations.
Academic Article	Evaluation of Genotypic Antiviral Resistance Testing as an Alternative to Phenotypic Testing in a Patient with DOCK8 Deficiency and Severe HSV-1 Disease.
Academic Article	Comparison of the ID Now Influenza A & B 2, Cobas Influenza A/B, and Xpert Xpress Flu Point-of-Care Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests for Influenza A/B Virus Detection in Children.
Academic Article	Vaccine Effectiveness Against Influenza Hospitalization Among Children in the United States, 2015-2016.
Academic Article	Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of the Revogene Strep A Molecular Assay for Detection of Streptococcus pyogenes from Throat Swab Specimens.
Academic Article	Frequency of asymptomatic and symptomatic respiratory virus detection in pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant patients.
Academic Article	Detection of Clostridioides difficile by Real-time PCR in Young Children Does Not Predict Disease.
Academic Article	Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Associated Hospitalizations Among Young Children: 2015-2016.
Academic Article	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infections in Children: Multicenter Surveillance, United States, January-March 2020.
Academic Article	Molecular Characterization of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Isolates in the United States from 2012 to 2018.
Academic Article	Impact of Rapid Influenza Molecular Testing on Management in Pediatric Acute Care Settings.
Academic Article	Vaccine Effectiveness Against Pediatric Influenza Hospitalizations and Emergency Visits.
Academic Article	Comparison of Parental Report of Influenza Vaccination to Documented Records in Children Hospitalized With Acute Respiratory Illness, 2015-2016.
Academic Article	Positive Impact of Routine Testing for Enterovirus and Parechovirus on Length of Hospitalization and Antimicrobial Use among Inpatients =6 Months of Age.
Academic Article	Variability in Culture-Negative Peritonitis Rates in Pediatric Peritoneal Dialysis Programs in the United States.
Academic Article	Effect of Vaccination on Preventing Influenza-Associated Hospitalizations Among Children During a Severe Season Associated With B/Victoria Viruses, 2019-2020.
Academic Article	Comparative in?vitro effectiveness of ceftolozane/tazobactam against pediatric gram-negative drug-resistant isolates.
Academic Article	Emergence of Parechovirus A3 as the Leading Cause of Central Nervous System Infection, Surpassing Any Single Enterovirus Type, in Children in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, from 2007 to 2016.
Academic Article	Childhood Outcomes Following Parechovirus Infections in a US Young Infant Cohort.
Academic Article	Antibody Responses after a Single Dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine.
Academic Article	Rotavirus Genotype Trends and Gastrointestinal Pathogen Detection in the United States, 2014-2016: Results From the New Vaccine Surveillance Network.
Grant	Enhanced Surveillance for New Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Grant	A national multi-center study to determine genetic variations in the fusion gene of Respiratory Syncytial virus (RSV) obtained from US Children <2 years old in geographically diverse sites
Academic Article	Global Trends in Norovirus Genotype Distribution among Children with Acute Gastroenteritis.
Academic Article	Real-time gastrointestinal infection surveillance through a cloud-based network of clinical laboratories.
Academic Article	Acute Respiratory Illnesses in Children in the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Prospective Multicenter Study.
Academic Article	A multicenter evaluation of viral bloodstream detections in children presenting to the Emergency Department with suspected systemic infection.
Academic Article	Cross-reactive antibody immunity against SARS-CoV-2 in children and adults.
Academic Article	Diagnostic Yield of Saliva for SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Testing in Children.
Academic Article	Humoral immune responses during SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine administration in seropositive and seronegative individuals.
Academic Article	Immune cell residency in the nasal mucosa may partially explain respiratory disease severity across the age range.
Academic Article	Maternal parechovirus A (PeV-A) shedding, serostatus, and the risk of central nervous system PeV-A infections in infants.
Academic Article	Comparison of diagnostic performance of five molecular assays for detection of SARS-CoV-2.
Academic Article	The Impact of Prior Infection and Age on Antibody Persistence After Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Messenger RNA Vaccine.
Academic Article	Clinical Influenza Testing Practices in Hospitalized Children at United States Medical Centers, 2015-2018.
Academic Article	Influenza clinical testing and oseltamivir treatment in hospitalized children with acute respiratory illness, 2015-2016.
Academic Article	Enterovirus D68-Associated Acute Respiratory Illness - New Vaccine Surveillance Network, United States, July-November 2018-2020.
Academic Article	Vaccine Effectiveness Against Influenza Hospitalization and Emergency Department Visits in 2 A(H3N2) Dominant Influenza Seasons Among Children <18 Years Old-New Vaccine Surveillance Network 2016-2017 and 2017-2018.
Academic Article	Neutralizing Enterovirus D68 Antibodies in Children after 2014 Outbreak, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Academic Article	Cross-reactive antibodies elicited to conserved epitopes on SARS-CoV-2 spike protein after infection and vaccination.
Academic Article	Understanding Variation in Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness Estimates in the United States: The Role of Rotavirus Activity and Diagnostic Misclassification.
Academic Article	Differences Between Viral Meningitis and Abusive Head Trauma.
Academic Article	Vaccination After SARS-CoV-2 Infection Increased Antibody Avidity Against the Omicron Variant Compared to Vaccination Alone.
Academic Article	A multi-center study to determine genetic variations in the fusion gene of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) from children <2 years of age in the U.S.
Academic Article	Differences in pediatric SARS-CoV-2 symptomology and Co-infection rates among COVID-19 Pandemic waves.
Academic Article	Clinical Presentation and Severity of Adenovirus Detection Alone vs Adenovirus Co-detection With Other Respiratory Viruses in US Children With Acute Respiratory Illness from 2016 to 2018.
Academic Article	Sustained Within-season Vaccine Effectiveness Against Influenza-associated Hospitalization in Children: Evidence From the New Vaccine Surveillance Network, 2015-2016 Through 2019-2020.
Academic Article	Cepheid Xpert Xpress Flu/RSV evaluation performed by minimally trained non-laboratory operators in a CLIA-waived environment.
Academic Article	Comparative analysis of three multiplex platforms for the detection of respiratory viral pathogens.
Academic Article	Respiratory Virus Surveillance Among Children with Acute Respiratory Illnesses - New Vaccine Surveillance Network, United States, 2016-2021.
Academic Article	Humoral and cellular response to the COVID-19 vaccine in immunocompromised children.
Academic Article	SARS-CoV-2 Screening Testing Programs for Safe In-person Learning in K-12 Schools.
Academic Article	Disruption of seasonal enterovirus and parechovirus detections in the CSF and plasma of children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Academic Article	Circulation of Rhinoviruses and/or Enteroviruses in Pediatric Patients With Acute Respiratory Illness Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US.
Academic Article	Comparative in vitro antipseudomonal activity of ceftolozane/tazobactam against Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from children with cystic fibrosis.
Academic Article	Impact of Rapid Molecular Multiplex Gastrointestinal Pathogen Testing in Management of Children during a Shigella Outbreak.
Academic Article	Multicenter Evaluation of the DiaSorin Molecular Simplexa Congenital CMV Direct PCR Test on Neonatal Saliva and Urine Specimens.
Academic Article	Researching COVID to enhance recovery (RECOVER) pediatric study protocol: Rationale, objectives and design.
Academic Article	Prevalence and clinical presentation of EV-D68 infections in Kansas City children during the 2022 season.
Academic Article	Utilization and Impact of Symptomatic and Exposure SARS-CoV-2 Testing in K-12 Schools.
Academic Article	A COVID-19 Testing Preference Study in Schools.
Academic Article	Notes from the Field: Multipathogen Respiratory Virus Testing Among Primary and Secondary School Students and Staff Members in a Large Metropolitan School District - Missouri, November 2, 2022-April 19, 2023.

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