Activities

With well-trained staff, modern equipment and methods, and on a 24-hour basis for inpatients, the department has the folowing branches:

Microbiology Laboratory

• Direct Gram and Ziehl-Neelsen staining of samples for the microscopic detection of pathogens.
• Μicrobial cultivation for the detection and isolation of pathogenic aerobic and anaerobic bacteria and fungi from patient samples in solid and liquid media.
• Blood samples cultivation for aerobic, anaerobic bacteria and fungi of patients with microbiota/sepsis.
• Identification of bacteria with an automated identification system.
• Parasitological and microscopic examination of faeces.
• Fecal cultivation for Salmonella, Sigella, Hyersinia, Campylobacter and enterohaemorrhagic coliforms.
• Special cultivation of sputum, bronchial secretions and others for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• Identification of tuberculosis mycobacteria using the PCR molecular method.
• Monitoring of resistance (MIC) to antibiotics. Antifungal resistance testing. Anti-tuberculosis resistance testing.
• Testing antibiotic resistance mechanisms using molecular methods.

Biochemical Laboratory

• Routine biochemical blood tests for the functional control of the cardiac, renal, gastroenterological system etc.
• Checking of biological fluids (CSF, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, synovial fluid, etc.).
• Lipid monitoring.
• General and microscopic urine examination.
• Pregnancy and faecal haemoglobin tests.
• Spermogram
• VMA, ACE, 5-HIAA, aldolase.

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Virology Laboratory Department

• Blood tests for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV (AIDS), Rubella, CMV and toxoplasmosis daily.
• Special blood tests for syphilis, echinococcus, leishmaniasis and amoebas daily.
• Special urine tests for legionella, stool tests for rotavirus and adenovirus and vaginal smears for chlamydia daily.
• Special blood tests for salmonella, brucella and leptospira daily.
• Special blood tests for herpes, chickenpox - shingles, infectious mononucleosis, measles, mumps, parvovirus, pneumonia mycoplasma and helicobacter pylori every week.
• Blood DNA viral load for patients with chronic hepatitis B and specific RNA viral load for patients with chronic hepatitis C by molecular methods.