Anne J. Blaschke
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Anne J. Blaschke, MD, PhD, FAAP, FPIDS, FIDSA

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Primary Location

Eccles Primary Children's Outpatient Services

81 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City , UT 84113
801-213-3599
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Dr. Blaschke completed her medical degree at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency and fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Hospital. She is currently a Professor and Division Chief for the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah. She is also the Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Blaschke´s clinical interests include general infectious diseases and serious bacterial infections including streptococcal and staphylococcal infections Dr. Blaschke´s research interests include the development of rapid diagnostic testing to improve the management of bacterial and viral infections in children, and comparative bacterial genomics to discover factors that lead to severe invasive infection.

Specialties

Board Certification

American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Infectious Diseases)
American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)

Dr. Blaschke completed her medical degree at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency and fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Hospital. She is currently a Professor and Division Chief for the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah. She is also the Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Blaschke´s clinical interests include general infectious diseases and serious bacterial infections including streptococcal and staphylococcal infections Dr. Blaschke´s research interests include the development of rapid diagnostic testing to improve the management of bacterial and viral infections in children, and comparative bacterial genomics to discover factors that lead to severe invasive infection.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pediatrics -Professor
Academic Divisions Infectious Diseases
Board Certification
American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Infectious Diseases)
American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)

Education history

Undergraduate Biology - Brown University A.B.
Professional Medical Medicine - University of California - San Diego School of Medicine M.D.
Doctoral Training Biology - University of California - San Diego Ph.D.
Internship Pediatrics - University of Utah School of Medicine Intern
Residency Pediatrics - University of Utah School of Medicine Resident
Fellowship Pediatric Infectious Diseases - Boston Medical Center Fellow
Fellowship Pediatric Infectious Diseases - University of Utah School of Medicine Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Petti CA, Simmon KE, Bender J, Blaschke A, Webster KA, Conneely MF, Schreckenberger PC, Origitano TC, Challapalli (2008). Culture-Negative intracerebral abscesses in children and adolescents from Streptococcus anginosus group infection: a case series. Clinical infectious diseases, 46(10), 1578-80.
  2. Blaschke AJ, Holmberg KM, Daly JA, Leber AL, Dien Bard J, Korgenski EK, Bourzac KM, Kanack K (2018). Retrospective Evaluation of Infants Aged 1 to 60 Days with Residual Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Tested Using the FilmArray Meningitis/Encephalitis (ME) Panel. Journal of clinical microbiology, 56(7),
  3. Schlaberg R, Ampofo K, Tardif KD, Stockmann C, Simmon KE, Hymas W, Flygare S, Kennedy B, Blaschke A, Eilbeck K, Yandell M, McCullers JA, Williams DJ, Edwards K, Arnold SR, Bramley A, Jain S, Pavia A (2017). Human Bocavirus Capsid Messenger RNA Detection in Children With Pneumonia. The Journal of infectious diseases, 216(6), 688-696.
  4. Blaschke A (2019). Association of bacterial coinfections in febrile infants with viral infections. The Journal of pediatrics, 204, 320-323.
  5. Lipsett SC, Hall M, Ambroggio L, Hersh AL, Shah SS, Brogan TV, Gerber JS, Williams DJ, Grijalva CG, Blaschke AJ, Neuman M (2021). Antibiotic Choice and Clinical Outcomes in Ambulatory Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia. The Journal of pediatrics, 229, 207-215.e1.
  6. Shapiro DJ, Hall M, Lipsett SC, Hersh AL, Ambroggio L, Shah SS, Brogan TV, Gerber JS, Williams DJ, Grijalva CG, Blaschke AJ, Neuman M (2021). Short- Versus Prolonged-Duration Antibiotics for Outpatient Pneumonia in Children. The Journal of pediatrics, 234, 205-211.e1.
  7. Delgado-Corcoran C, Blaschke AJ, Ou Z, Presson AP, Burch PT, Pribble CG, Menon S (2019). Respiratory Testing and Hospital Outcomes in Asymptomatic Infants Undergoing Heart Surgery. Pediatric cardiology, 40(2), 339-348.
  8. Meyers L, Dien Bard J, Galvin B, Nawrocki J, Niesters HGM, Stellrecht KA, St George K, Daly JA, Blaschke AJ, Robinson C, Wang H, Cook CV, Hassan F, Dominguez SR, Pretty K, Naccache S, Olin KE, Althouse BM, Jones JD, Ginocchio CC, Poritz MA, Leber A, Selvarangan (2020). Enterovirus D68 outbreak detection through a syndromic disease epidemiology network. Journal of clinical virology, 124, 104262.
  9. Flygare S, Simmon K, Miller C, Qiao Y, Kennedy B, Di Sera T, Graf EH, Tardif KD, Kapusta A, Rynearson S, Stockmann C, Queen K, Tong S, Voelkerding KV, Blaschke A, Byington CL, Jain S, Pavia A, Ampofo K, Eilbeck K, Marth G, Yandell M, Schlaberg (2016). Taxonomer: an interactive metagenomics analysis portal for universal pathogen detection and host mRNA expression profiling. Genome biology, 17(1), 111.
  10. Rostad CA, Kanwar N, Yi J, Morris CR, Bard JD, Leber A, Dunn J, Chapin KC, Blaschke AJ, Daly JA, Hueschen LA, Jones M, Ott E, Bastar J, Bourzac KM, Selvarangan (2021). A multicenter evaluation of viral bloodstream detections in children presenting to the Emergency Department with suspected systemic infection. BMC pediatrics, 21(1), 238.
  11. Crandall H, Kapusta A, Killpack J, Heyrend C, Nilsson K, Dickey M, Daly JA, Ampofo K, Pavia AT, Mulvey MA, Yandell M, Hulten KG, Blaschke A (2020). Clinical and molecular epidemiology of invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection in Utah children; continued dominance of MSSA over MRSA. PloS one, 15(9), e0238991.
  12. Lipsett SC, Hall M, Ambroggio L, Desai S, Shah SS, Brogan TV, Hersh AL, Williams DJ, Grijalva CG, Gerber JS, Blaschke AJ, Neuman M (2019). Predictors of Bacteremia in Children Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Hospital pediatrics, 9(10), 770-778.
  13. Desai S, Hall M, Lipsett SC, Shah SS, Brogan TV, Hersh AL, Williams DJ, Grijalva CG, Gerber JS, Blaschke AJ, Neuman MI, Ambroggio (2021). Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Testing and Treatment Among Children With Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Hospital pediatrics, 11(7), 760-763.
  14. Blaschke AJ, McKevitt M, Ampofo K, Lewis T, Chai H, Guo Y, Dorsch J, Vanderhoof E, Rosen P, Freimann V, Korgenski EK, Toback S, Chien J (2019). Midturbinate Swabs Are Comparable to Nasopharyngeal Swabs for Quantitative Detection of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Infants. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 8(6), 554-558.
  15. Crandall H, Christiansen J, Varghese AA, Russon A, Korgenski EK, Bengtson EK, Dickey M, Killpack J, Knackstedt ED, Daly JA, Ampofo K, Pavia AT, Blaschke A (2020). Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Serotype a Infections in Utah Children. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 9(6), 650-655.
  16. Gladstone RA, Lo SW, Goater R, Yeats C, Taylor B, Hadfield J, Lees JA, Croucher NJ, van Tonder AJ, Bentley LJ, Quah FX, Blaschke AJ, Pershing NL, Byington CL, Balaji V, Hryniewicz W, Sigauque B, Ravikumar KL, Almeida SCG, Ochoa TJ, Ho PL, du Plessis M, Ndlangisa KM, Cornick JE, Kwambana-Adams B, Benisty R, Nzenze SA, Madhi SA, Hawkins PA, Pollard AJ, Everett DB, Antonio M, Dagan R, Klugman KP, von Gottberg A, Metcalf BJ, Li Y, Beall BW, McGee L, Breiman RF, Aanensen DM, Bentley SD, The Global Pneumococcal Sequencing Consortium (2020). Visualizing variation within Global Pneumococcal Sequence Clusters (GPSCs) and country population snapshots to contextualize pneumococcal isolates. Microbial genomics, 6(5),
  17. Arrieta AC, Osborne S, Grant LR, Gessner BD, Blaschke AJ, Hulten KG, Nieves DJ, Miller A, Bender C, Isturiz R, Alexander R, Nielsen SM, Lamberth LB, Cane A, Arguedas (2025). Parapneumonic Empyema Complicating Community-acquired Pneumonia: Etiology in the Era of Pneumococcal Vaccination and Role of Molecular Diagnosis. The Pediatric infectious disease journal,

Video/Film/CD/Web/Podcast

  1. Blaschke A (2018). Interviewed regarding Pediatrics 2018 publication about rhinovirus detection in febrile infants.
  2. Blashke, AJ (2018). Interviewed regarding Pediatrics 2018 publication about rhinovirus detection in febrile infants.

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