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Medical Microbiology > General > overview
last update: 2008-03-19

Department of Medical Microbiology

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Introduction

The Department of Medical Microbiology (chairman:  prof.dr. A.C.M. Kroes) consists of three laboratories:

  • Molecular Virology 
  • Experimental Microbiology
  • Clinical Microbiology

The activities of the department  (housing around 120 persons) include diagnostics, research, teaching and residence training. The department 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 research at the department is aimed at understanding the (molecular) interactions between pathogens and the host. This research is performed at different levels: from molecular genetics of the pathogens to molecular diagnostics and from molecular epidemiology to the development of vaccines.

The department is involved in the University education programs of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences and Life Science and Technology and the training programme of the "Hogeschool Leiden".

The department  participates within the LUMC in the training programmes for medical specialist. The training program for medical microbiologist comprises 5 years and covers all aspects necessary for this specialization: bacteriology, virology, parasitology and mycology, both at the level of laboratory diagnostics as well as the clinical problems of infections and therapy.

The Department of Medical Microbiology is part of
the Center of Infectious Diseases (CID) at
the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)

Send e-mail to medmic@lumc.nl with questions or comments about this website.