Faculty

Education

1. Ph.D.

2. B.A.

Fellowship

1. Washington University School of Medicine

Post-doctoral Training

1. Washington University School of Medicine

Specialty

1. Clinical and Molecular Microbiology

Board Certification

1. American Board of Medical Microbiology

Area of Interest

1. Microbiology and infectious disease diagnostics

Current Position

1. Director of Microbiology Laboratories

2. Director of Molecular Microbiology

Professional Positions Held

1. Assistant Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics

Other Positions

1. Director of Microbiology, Children's Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Membership on professional organizations

1. American Society for Microbiology

2. Association for Molecular Pathology

3. Member of ASM Laboratory Practice Committee

Representative Publications

1. T. McCavit, S. Grube, P. Revell , and C.T. Quinn. Bordetella holmesii bacteremia in children with sickle cell disease: an emerging pathogen. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2008 Dec;51(6):814-6.

2. Dundas N, Leos N, Mitui M, Revell PA , Rogers BB. Comparison of Automated Extraction Methods to Laboratory Gold Standard. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 2008 Jul;10(4):311-6.

3. Christina A. Arnold, Dinesh Rakheja, Michael A. Arnold, John M. Peters, Neil J. Fernandes, Norma M. Quintanilla, Arthur G. Weinberg, Paula Revell , and Dominick C. Cavuoti. Unsuspected, Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis without Maternofetal Morbidity Diagnosed by Placental Examination: Case Report and Review of the Literature. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2008; 46:e119-23.

4. Lisa M Sutton, Rita Gander, Paula Revell , and Paul Southern. Travel-Related Fever Due to An Emerging Infection. Lab Medicine. 2008 Feb; 39(2): 2-5.

5. Ardura MI, Mejias A, Katz KS, Revell P , McCracken GH, Sanchez PJ. Daptomycin Therapy for Invasive Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections in Children. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2007 Dec; 26(12): 1128-1132.

6. Paula A. Revell . Avian Influenza A (H5N1): Pandemic Potential and the Role of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Lab Medicine. 2007 Dec; 38(12):740-743.

7. Revell PA , Grossman WJ, Thomas DA, Cao X, Behl R, Ratner JA, Lu ZH, Ley TJ. Granzyme B and the downstream granzymes C and/or F are important for cytotoxic lymphocyte functions. J Immunol. 2005 Feb 15;174(4):2124-31.

8. Joy Loh, Dori A. Thomas, Paula A. Revell , Timothy J. Ley, Herbert W. Virgin IV. Granzymes and Caspase 3 Play Important Roles in Control of Gammaherpesvirus Latency. JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, Nov. 2004, p. 12519-12528.

9. Handley, S.A., Dube, P.H, Revell, PA , and Miller, V.L. Characterization of Y. enterocolitica infection in three different strains of inbred mice. Infect Immun. 2004 Mar;72(3):1645-56.

10. Grossman WJ, Revell PA , Lu ZH, Johnson H, Bredemeyer AJ, Ley TJ. The orphan granzymes of humans and mice. Curr Opin Immunol. 2003 Oct;15(5):544-52.

11. Dube, P.H., Handley, S.A., Revell, PA , and Miller, V.L. The rovA mutant of Y. enterocolitica displays differential degrees of virulence depending upon the route of infection. Infection and Immunity. 71(6): 3512-20, 2003.

12. Revell, PA , and Miller, VL. Yersinia virulence: More than a plasmid. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 205(2): 159-164, 2001.

13. Dube, PH., * Revell, PA., * Chaplin, DD., Lorenz, RG., and Miller, VL. A role for IL-1a in inducing pathologic inflammation during bacterial infection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 98(19): 10880-10885, 2001. * PHD and PAR contributed equally to this work.

14. Revell, PA. , and Miller, VL. A chromosomally encoded regulator is required for expression of the Y. enterocolitica inv gene and for virulence. Mol. Microbiol., 35(3): 677-685, 2000.

15. Ha-Lee, YM., Dillon, K., Kosaras, B., Sidman, R., Revell, P. , Fujinami, R., Chow, M. Mode of spread to and within the central nervous system after oral infection of neonatal mice with the DA strain of Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus. Journal of Virology, 69(11): 7354-7361, 1995.