Saint-Petersburg Pasteur Institute (previous name – Bacteriological and Diagnostic Institute)
Basic information
The Institute has made an important contribution to immunobiotechnology and development of national reagents. Priority researches were performed at the institute to create the new biotechnology area in the country — precise immunochemistry (development of preparations with protein A, conjugates for enzyme immunoassay, immobilized reagents etc.).
The Institute was one of leaders in studies on the ethiology of infectious diseases. For the first time in the country agents of “new” viral and bacterial infections were isolated and identified here — hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, Campylobacter and H. pylori infections; very first outbreak of hepatitis C was detected and studied by the institute.
The Institute was among the first institutions in the country to modernize research activity using the methodology of molecular epidemiology. Since the beginning of 1990-s together with national specialists and foreign colleagues institute’s laboratories got priority world-level results in the area of dynamics and evolution of more than twenty emerging pathogens. Thanks to this activity the Institute became one of the leading research teams in development of technologies for epidemiological surveillance.
In 1993 the Institute joined as a full member the Institutes Pasteur International Network (IPIN); it was very important event in institute’s life. It collaborates with the Institutes Pasteur International Network (IPIN), participates in scientific events organized by the International Network as well as the Board of Directors of Pasteur Institutes.
The collaboration with WHO got new impetus for further progress. The Institute participated actively in the development and implementation of international and national programs for poliomyelitis and measles eradication. The eradication of poliomyelitis and measles in North-Western region of the Russian Federation was the historic result of this activity of the institute together with epidemiological and public health institutions.
Methods of institute’s collaboration with public health institutions are updated and further developed. The Institute established and operated successfully national and regional reference centers for monitoring enteric fever, Yersinia infections, viral hepatitis, HIV infection and AIDS, rickettsial diseases.
One of the most active branches of the Russian Society for Epidemiology, Microbiology and Parasitology — the branch for St. Petersburg and Leningrad province — has its sessions at the Pasteur Institute.
Since 2011 the Institute began to publish a magazine “Russian Journal of Infection and Immunity”.
The Institute has a postgraduate study in the following specialties: microbiology, virology, immunology, epidemiology, infectious diseases.
Currently, the St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute is conducting fundamental and applied research in the field of epidemiology, microbiology and biotechnology in order to ensure the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population of the Russian Federation. The structure of the Institute consists of fifteen research laboratories and four departments, on the basis of which two WHO subnational laboratories operate for the diagnosis of poliomyelitis and for the diagnosis of measles / rubella; reference centers for monitoring typhoid fever and for yersiniosis; Scientific and Methodological Center for Epidemiological Surveillance of Viral Hepatitis; regional centers for epidemiological surveillance of poliomyelitis, measles / rubella, salmonellosis, rickettsiosis, North-West District Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS. The Institute as a whole performs the functions of a scientific and methodological center for monitoring infectious disease pathogens in the North-West Federal District.
In addition to scientific laboratories, the Institute includes the Testing Laboratory Center, the Medical Center, the Publishing House, and the Pilot-Industrial Production, which produces a wide range of diagnostic products and selective nutrient media for the cultivation of microorganisms.
The Institute as a whole performs the functions of the Scientific and Methodological Center for the Monitoring of Pathogens of Infectious Diseases in the North-West Federal District.
The Pasteur Institute in St. Petersburg has always been and continues to be the undisputed leader in the field of studying the problems of etiology and infection prevention, actively developing, maintaining links and carrying out scientific and practical collaboration with its Russian and international partners, with health and epidemic services, public health services, with the Federal Service for Epidemiological and Health Surveillance (Rospotrebnadzor).
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Saint Petersburg, RussiaProducts