NRL for Special Bacterial Pathogens (NRL SBP)

 

Head of NRL SBP

Ch. Assistant
Rumiana Nenova, MD

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Laboratory staff:

Ch. assistant
Dr. Iskra Angelova Tomova, MD

expert Legionella and Legionnaires' disease

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Lilia Goryanova

biologist, microbiologist

Gatanka Rizova

lab technician

Antoaneta Radeva

med. laboratory assistant

Emilia Pancheva

lab. worker

 

Activites:

NRL SBP is the only civilian laboratory in the country for testing of suspected bioterrorism (BT) samples. It performs highly specialized, primary and reference tesing of clinical samples for anthrax, brucellosis, tularemia, plague, cholera and Legionnaires' disease, as well as water samples for Legionella spp and Francisella spp.

The laboratory experts have been trained in Reference centers in Germany, Unaided Kingdom and Spain.

NRL SBP is accredited according to BDS EN ISO / IEC 17025: 2005.

The modern equipment and the qualified personnel provide high quality of diagnosis and research activities for highly pathogenic zoonotic agents (B anthracis, Brucella spp, F tularensis, Y pestis, B mallei, B pseudomallei), as well as for V cholerae, and Legionella spp.

The laboratory participates in EU projects funded by: Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC), European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) and others (EQADeBa; QUANDHIP; EMERGE, SHARP, TERROR, etc.)

NRL SBP conducts annually:

  • Microbiome analysis and bioinformatics with international participation
  • Microbiological diagnosis of highly pathogenic bacterial infections
  • Legionella, Legionnaires disease and other legionnaires - current state of the problem

The laboratory experts provide assistance to all regional laboratories in solving different diagnostic problems, incl emerging and re-emerging bacterial zoonoses, in the country.

Scientific papers

Annual planned activities

Section "Microbiom"

Head of sector

Prof. Stefan Panayotov, PhD

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ch. assistant Vladimir Tolchkov

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Yordan Hodjev

doctoral student

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Borislava Tsafarova

doctoral student

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Tatiana Stoycheva

lab. worker