Patientcare

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last update: 2008-04-01

Patient care

Diagnostics

The Department of Medical Microbiology also includes a separate section devoted to the diagnostics of infectious diseases, the Clinical Microbiological Laboratory (CML). This laboratory is primarily responsible for all microbiological services within the Leiden University Medical Center, which is a tertiary referral and teaching hospital offering a wide range of advanced patient care facilities, including most categories of organ and bone marrow transplantation. The laboratory also has a regional role in providing microbiological services for primary medical care and other hospitals.

The Clinical Microbiological Laboratory is divided into five laboratory units and a central Reception and Administrative unit.

Laboratory units within the Clinical Microbiological Laboratory are:

The Bacteriology Laboratory	Diagnosis of bacterial infections by microscopy and culture, determination of antibiotic sensitivities
The Virology Laboratory	Diagnosis of viral infections by antigen detection and viral culture
The Parasitology Laboratory	Diagnosis of parasitic infections by microscopy and antigen detection
The Serological Laboratory	Diagnosis of infectious diseases by antibody and antigen detection in serum
The Molecular Biology Laboratory	Diagnosis of infectious diseases by the detection of nucleic acid, including the further qualitative and quantitative analysis of these infections

The Clinical Microbiological Laboratory employs a wide range of techniques for optimal support of the LUMC patient care. Special emphasis is on:

the early diagnosis of viral infections in the immunocompromised host
the bacteriological monitoring of selective bowel decontamination
parasitological serology
HIV drug resistance testing
molecular diagnosis of respiratory infections

Personnel of the Clinical Microbiological Laboratory

Around 60 persons are active within the Laboratory, including staff members, technicians, administrative staff, doctors in training for specialization in medical microbiology and researchers projects in the field of clinical microbiology.

Staff of the Clinical Microbiological Laboratory

A.C.M. Kroes MD PhD	Head
A.T. Bernards MD PhD	Medical Microbiologist
A.T.C.M. Vossen MD PhD	Co-ordinator of the Virological and the Serological Laboratory
E.C.J. Claas PhD	Co-ordinator of the Molecular Biology Laboratory
J.J.C. de Vries MD	Medical Microbiologist
M.C.W. Feltkamp MD PhD	Medical Microbiologist
D.J. Montijn	Laboratory Manager
T.C. van Surksum-Guijt	Chief Technician
J. Kromhout	Chief Technician
E.J. Kuijper MD PhD	Co-ordinator of the Bacteriology Laboratory
J. Mulder	Quality Co-ordinator
E.A. van Lieshout PhD	Co-ordinator of the Parasitology Laboratory
J. Gooskens MD	Medical Microbiologist/researcher
J.J. Verweij	Parasitologist

Doctors in training for specialization in Medical Microbiology:

J. Kalpoe MD, PhD