Hai Nguyen-Tran, MD

Publications

• Nguyen-Tran H, Butler M, Simmons D, Dominguez SR, Messacar K. Return of the Biennial Circulation of Enterovirus D68 in Colorado Children in 2024 Following the Large 2022 Outbreak. Viruses. 2025 May 5;17(5). PubMed PMID: 40431685
• Nguyen-Tran H, Park SW, Vogt MR, Permaul P, Spaulding AB, Hernandez ML, Bohl JA, Godbole S, Ruckwardt TJ, Krug PW, Moss DL, Derrien-Colemyn A, Chowdhury A, Dziubla G, Wang L, Castro M, Narpala SR, Longtine ER, Henry AR, Ngo TB, Dzantiev L, Sigal GB, Metcalf CJ, Kimberlin DW, Dominguez SR, Mittelman A, McDermott AB, Serebryannyy LA, Grenfell B, Messacar K, Douek DC. Dynamics of endemic virus re-emergence in children in the USA following the COVID-19 pandemic (2022-23): a prospective, multicentre, longitudinal, immunoepidemiological surveillance study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2025 Aug 6. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 40782819
• Nguyen-Tran H, Wanyama CW, Toni AT, Berman S. Chapter 8: Management Strategies for Common Pediatric Infections in the Aftermath of Disasters. Pediatric Considerations in Disaster Settings, ed. Umphrey L, Wathen J, Wanyama CW, Alaro D, Kariuki CW, Emadau CI, Gachie-Lopokoiyit R. Springer Nature Switzerland. 2025.
• Nguyen-Tran H, Nomura Y, Gaensbauer J. Chapter 42: Infections: Bacterial & Spirochetal. Current Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatrics, 27th Edition, ed. Bunik M, Levin MJ, Abzug MJ, Schreiner TL. McGraw Hill. 2025.
• Nguyen-Tran, H. Characterizing Clinical and Immunologic Predictive Factors of Enterovirus D68 Diseases Presentations: Shedding and Epidemiology and Immunology, Oh My! Department of Pediatrics Basic & Translational Research Seminar Series, Aurora, CO. April 2025.
• Nguyen-Tran H, Spaulding AB, Messacar K, Vogt MR, Permaul P, Douek DC, Mittelman A, Thompson C, Grubbs S, Magana C, Hernandez ML. Recruitment and retention of pediatric participants for pandemic preparedness research: Experience from the PREMISE EV-D68 Pilot Study. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2024 Oct;41:101351. PubMed PMID: 39252862
• Messacar K, Matzinger S, Berg K, Weisbeck K, Butler M, Pysnack N, Nguyen-Tran H, Davizon ES, Bankers L, Jung SA, Birkholz M, Wheeler A, Dominguez SR. Multimodal Surveillance Model for Enterovirus D68 Respiratory Disease and Acute Flaccid Myelitis among Children in Colorado, USA, 2022. Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Mar;30(3):423-431. PubMed PMID: 38407198
• Nguyen-Tran H, Erdem G, Laufer PM, Patterson L, Ahmed AA, Bower WA, Galloway R, Saporta-Keating S. Use of Advanced Diagnostics for Timely Identification of Travel-associated Leptospira santarosai Infection in Four Adolescents Through Plasma Microbial Cell-free DNA Sequencing With the Karius Test. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2024 May 1;43(5):e169-e174. PubMed PMID: 38241644
• Nguyen-Tran H, Reno S, Mwangi E, Mentel M, Hengartner R, Dominguez SR, Messacar K, Jung SA. Qualitative detection of enterovirus D68 from PrimeStore® molecular transport medium: implications for home- and self-collection. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2023 Aug;106(4):115976. PubMed PMID: 37267740
• Nguyen-Tran H, Thompson C, Butler M, Miller KR, Pyle L, Jung S, Rogers S, Ng TFF, Routh J, Dominguez SR, Messacar K. Duration of Enterovirus D68 RNA Shedding in the Upper Respiratory Tract and Transmission among Household Contacts, Colorado, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Nov;29(11):2315-2324. PubMed PMID: 37877582
• Nguyen-Tran H, Reno S, Mwangi E, Mentel M, Hengartner R, Dominguez SR, Messacar K, Jung SA. Qualitative detection of enterovirus D68 from PrimeStore® molecular transport medium: implications for home- and self-collection. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2023 Aug;106(4):115976. PubMed PMID: 37267740
• Nguyen-Tran H, MacBrayne CE, Parker SK, Poole NM. Ambulatory cephalosporin prescribing practices at a freestanding children's hospital network. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2022;2(1):e175. PubMed PMID: 36386006
• Messacar K, Baker RE, Park SW, Nguyen-Tran H, Cataldi JR, Grenfell B. Preparing for uncertainty: endemic paediatric viral illnesses after COVID-19 pandemic disruption. Lancet. 2022 Nov 12;400(10364):1663-1665. PubMed PMID: 35843260
• Nguyen-Tran H, Park SW, Messacar K, Dominguez SR, Vogt MR, Permar S, Permaul P, Hernandez M, Douek DC, McDermott AB, Metcalf CJE, Grenfell B, Spaulding AB. Enterovirus D68: a test case for the use of immunological surveillance to develop tools to mitigate the pandemic potential of emerging pathogens. Lancet Microbe. 2022 Feb;3(2):e83-e85. PubMed PMID: 35036969
• Nguyen-Tran H, Messacar K. Preventing enterovirus A71 disease: another promising vaccine for children. Lancet. 2022 Apr 30;399(10336):1671-1673. PubMed PMID: 35427482
• Louie JP, Alfano J, Nguyen-Tran T, Nguyen-Tran H, Shanley R, Holm T, Furnival RA. Reduction of paediatric head CT utilisation at a rural general hospital emergency department. BMJ Qual Saf. 2020 Nov;29(11):912-920. PubMed PMID: 32111643
• Schneider K, Nguyen-Tran H, Segura BJ, Areaux RG, Nerheim D, Louie JP. Ocular Injury Presenting to a Level-III Pediatric Trauma Center. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2020 Nov;36(11):e606-e609. PubMed PMID: 29912087
• Ghebre RG, Sewali B, Osman S, Adawe A, Nguyen HT, Okuyemi KS, Joseph A. Cervical cancer: barriers to screening in the Somali community in Minnesota. J Immigr Minor Health. 2015 Jun;17(3):722-8. PubMed PMID: 25073605
• Messacar K and Nguyen-Tran H. Malaria. Five Minute Emergency Medicine (in-press).
• Nguyen-Tran H, Abzug MJ, Messacar K. Introduction to Picornaviruses. Principles and Practice of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Seventh Edition, ed. Long SS, Prober CG, Fischer M. Elsevier, Inc. (in-press).
• Nguyen-Tran H, Abzug MJ, Messacar K. Enteroviruses and Parechoviruses. Principles and Practice of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Seventh Edition, ed. Long SS, Prober CG, Fischer M. Elsevier, Inc. (in-press).

Practice Locations

Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 East 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-777-1234

Hospital Affiliation

• Children's Hospital Colorado

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Pediatrics, Board Certification (2020)
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Board Certification (2023)

Conditions & Treatments

• Infections
• Infections - Bacterial Infections
• Infections - Fungal Infections
• Infections - Influenza
• Infections - Pneumonia
• Infections - Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Infections - Viral Infections
• Child and Teen Health - Pediatric Diseases and Conditions
• Child and Teen Health