National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD)

a national institution with the status of scientific organization under the Ministry of Health.

It's aim is to develop the scientific foundations of the fight against infectious diseases and methods for its implementation. This determines the intensive research on etiopathogenesis, immune reactivity, epidemiological features, laboratory diagnostics, treatment and immunoprophylaxis of bacterial and viral, including nosocomial, and parasitic infections.

NCIPD hosts all National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) for various bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections. Laboratory test Complex (LTC), which is for now the only in our country accredited by the Bulgarian Accreditation Service (BAS) in 2003 under the European requirements of standard BS EN ISO 17025 for quality of work. NRLs are under permanent international external laboratory control of the German accreditation system Instand.

Since 1998 NCIPD, through the National Reference Laboratories, is conducting a National External Laboratory Control for the Quality of Laboratory Diagnostics carried out by all Microbiological, Virological and Parasitological Laboratories in the country, which, upon successful outcome, allows them to conclude contracts with the National Health Insurance Fund.