Laboratory of Microbiology

INTRODUCTORY PAGE
The Laboratory of Microbiology belongs to the Functional-Clinical Laboratory Sector of the Faculty of Medicine at the Democritus University of Thrace.
Established by PD 459/87 (Government Gazette/FEK 215/8-12-1987)
Ministerial Establishment Decision: Υ4α /29261/03 (FEK 750/11-6-2003)
Internal Operating Regulations: PD 166/2001 (FEK 148/5-7-2001), as amended by Ministerial Decision No. Φ.2192/Β1/24-2-2005 (FEK 298/8-3-2005).
Faculty Members
  • Maria Panopoulou, Professor of Microbiology, Director
  • Theocharis Konstantinidis, Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Special Technical Laboratory Staff (ETEP)
  • Alexandra Batarli, Medical Laboratory Technologist
Contact Information
Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Dragana, University Campus, 68100 Alexandroupolis.
Tel: +30 25513 52151, +30 25513 52154
E-mails: mpanopou@med.duth.gr, tkonsta@med.duth.gr, abatarli@med.duth.gr
EDUCATION
Undergraduate Education
Microbiology I, Microbiology II, Clinical Microbiology
Postgraduate Education
  • Interdepartmental MSc Program “Infectious Diseases – International Medicine: from the bench to clinical practice,” School of Health Sciences, DUTH (Departments of Medicine & Molecular Biology and Genetics).
  • Residency training for medical doctors in the specialty of Medical Biopathology-Laboratory Medicine.
RESEARCH WORK
The Laboratory’s research focuses on Molecular Bacteriology, Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance, and Nosocomial (Healthcare-associated) Infections.
CLINICAL-LABORATORY & DIAGNOSTIC WORK
The Laboratory of Microbiology consists of the following departments: Cultures, Mycobacteria, Molecular Microbiology, and Infection Immunology.
It performs a large number of diagnostic tests for patients in the clinics and outpatient departments of the University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, as well as for Health Structures in the wider region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.
The examinations cover a wide range of subjects in Biopathology-Laboratory Medicine, such as Bacteriology, Virology, Mycology, Parasitology, Immunology, and Molecular Diagnostics.
The laboratory’s medical-technological equipment includes both basic classical methodology tools and cutting-edge technologies (mass spectrometer, next-generation sequencing analyzer), supporting both its research activities and its clinical-diagnostic work.
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