Address: Sofia 1233; 44А General Stoletov blvd.;
Tel/ Fax: 02/831 91 25
Head of Laboratory:
Senior Assist. Rumiana Staykova Nenova MD
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Laboratory staff:
Senior Assist. Iskra Angelova Tomova, MD, PhD
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Lilia Goryanava, biologist, Expert in Microbiology
Gatanka Rizova, laboratory assistant
Antoaneta Radeva, laboratory assistant
Emilia Pancheva, laboratory 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 БДС 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.
Section "Microbiom"
Head of the sector - Prof. Stefan Panaiotov, PhD
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Staff:
Vladimir Tolchkov - Senior Assistant - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Yordan Hodzhev - PhD student - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Borislava Tsafarova - PhD student - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tatiana Stoicheva - laboratory worker