The Division
of Enteric Bacterial Infections provides
national standards for identification
of bacteria related to intestinal infectious
diseases, including identification and
confirmation of the isolates from National
Health Laboratory in Korea.
We perform several
tests with the collected isolates like phage
typing, antimicrobial sensitivity test, ribotyping
and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis(PFGE).
Those data are applied as tool of epidemiological
surveillance and standard of laboratory diagnostics.
Also basic or applied researches are performed
on pathogenicity of isolated bacteria.
Major function and
responsibility
1. Final confirmation
and identification of the causing agent
of enteric bacterial infection
， Cholera
， Typhoid fever
， Paratyphoid fever
， Shigellosis
， Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli O157 infection
et al.
， Plague
， Salmonellosis
， Vibrio parahaemolyticus food poisoning
3. Development of standardized
identifying protocols for enteric pathogens
， Vibrio spp.
， Salmonella spp.
， Shigella spp.
， Pathogenic E. coli
， Other enteric bacteria
4. Scientific and applied
research
， Establishment of surveillance system
for bacterial diarrhoeal diseases including
enterohaemorrhegic E. coli
， Standardization of diagnosis on pathogenic
E. coli
， Search for the outbreaks origin on
V. cholerae by the development of laboratory
surveillance system to oceanic ecology
in Korea
， Construction of molecular epidemiological
databases for major epidemic marker
against strains isolated in Korea
， Laboratory surveillance of pathogenic
E. coli O157
5. Reference Laboratory
of Salmonella serotyping
6. Center for Phage typing
， S. Typhi, S. Enteritidis, S. Typhimurium
and E. coli O157
194, Tongil-Lo, Eunpyung-Gu, Seoul, 122-701,
Korea TEL : 82-2-357-2605~10, FAX : 82-2-357-0532
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