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KNIH/ Division of Bacterial Respiratory Infections |
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| The Division
of Bacterial Respiratory Infections
carries out the confirmatory diagnosis
and laboratory-based surveillance against
the pathogenic bacteria causing respiratory
infectious diseases, such as diphtheria,
pertusis, scarlet fever, meningococcal
meningitis, legionellosis, and other
bacterial pneumonia. |
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| We investigate the epidemiological
characteristics including phenotype and genotype
of pathogenic bacteria and perform the basic
studies for the pathogenesis of respiratory
bacterial infections in order to develope
the novel diagnostic tools and vaccines. |
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| In addition, for the control
of infectious bacterial communicable disease,
we are responsible for producing and supplying
diagnostic antisera to V. cholerae, Salmonella,
Shigella, and Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli to
the Provincial Research Institute of Health
& Environmental, Health Centers and Quarantine
Stations. |
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Major Functions
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1. Confirmatory diagnosis
for respiratory infectious bacteria
， Bordetella pertusis
， Streptococcus pneumoniae
， Corynebacterium diphtheriae
， Chlamydia pneumoniae
， Streptococcus pyogenes
， Mycoplasma pneumoniae
， Legionella spp.
， Haemophilus influenzae
， Neisseria meningitidis |
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2. Laboratory-based surveillance
， Laboratory surveillance to respiratory
bacterial infections :
Bordetella pertusis, Legionella spp.,
Chlamydia pneumoniae, etc. |
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3. Production and distribution
of diagnostic antisera to the communicable
infectious bacteria
， Vibrio cholerae (O1, O139)
， Salmonela spp. (A, B, C, D, E)
， Shigella spp. (A, B, C, D)
， Pathogenic E. coli (O26, O111, O157) |
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4. Research Projects
， The ecological typing and analysis
of genome diversity of Legionella spp.
from the hospital water supply systems
or other environmental water sources
， Virulence genes of Legionella pneumophila
using the intracellular model
， Functional genomic approach of S.
pneumoniae GrpE selected by proteomic
analysis
， Fluoroquinolone resistance mechanism
in S. pneumoniae
， The molecular epidemiology of M. catarrhalis
isolates and immunogenicity and virulence
of UspA
， Immunogenic marker proteins of C.
pneumoniae using immunoproteomics |
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194, Tongil-Lo, Eunpyung-Gu, Seoul, 122-701,
Korea TEL : 82-2-357-2605~10, FAX : 82-2-357-0532
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