Department of VirologyTeaching Staff:
Historical Background: The Chair of Virology was founded as a part of Kiev Institute for the Advancement of Physicians (KIAP) on the 10th of March of 1985 according to Order № 822 of the 2nd of August of 1984 by the Soviet Union Ministry of Health. Founder and the first head of Chair was Girin Vitaliy Mikolayovich, doctor of medical science, professor and member of the Science Academy of the Higher School of Ukraine, the honored science and technology worker, President of KIAP, that was lately renamed in Kyiv Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education. Professor V. Girin was the graduate of the Kiev school of microbiologists and virologists, one of the founders of the new Ukrainian contemporary field of science - health microbiology and virology. Since 2002 the Department of Virology has been heading by his disciple, Honored Doctor of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences I. Dzyublik - a specialist in problems of rotavirus, HIV infection/ AIDS, chemotherapy and prophylaxis of viral infections, interferon inducers and interferon. I. Dzyublik is the author of more than 350 scientific papers, 12 inventor's certificates and patents, and author or coauthor of 20 textbooks and manuals on virology. I. Dzyublik is the the Member of the Commission and the Ministry of Health of Sciences of Ukraine to monitor the rational use of antibacterial and antiviral agents in Ukraine, the member of the Coordinating Council on combating highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and pandemic influenza, a member of the Specialized Scientific Council D26.003.01 of the National Medical University Bogomoletz Ministry of Ukraine, the member of editorial boards of many scientific publications.
Teaching and Methodological Work: The educational and methodical work is carried out On two educational clinical bases (Kiev Clinical hospital №5 and at the Institute of cellular therapy) Chair’s premises, totaling 400 square meters of space, including a certificated room for working with viruses of the third and fourth categories of pathogenity (certification granted on 22 July 2002), state-of-the-art medical equipment, and a vivarium. The modern technical resources (INTERNET, computing, multimedia, photocopying equipment, projection and video facilities) are broadly used in the educational process. According to approved programs and plans by the Ministry of Public Health on budgetary and extra-budgetary basis, as well as an individual plans, the department carried out such courses:
Specialization in Virology. Preparation of a physician-virologist /specialist-virologist (for doctors who have completed an internship at one of the specialties of health-care profile) as well as specialists with higher biological education.
Pre-certification courses on specialty "Virology" (for physicians-virologists/ specialists-virologists)
Topical Advanced Training Courses 1. "Modern Problems of ToRCH infections" – 2 weeks (for obstetricians, neonatologists, infectious disease doctors, dermatovenereologists, pediatricians, virologists, bacteriologists, epidemiologists, laboratory doctors of various medical institutions: diagnostic centers, medical-diagnostic laboratories of the blood service, dermatovenereological service and those professionals, who conduct laboratory diagnosis of ToRCH infections in pregnant women by ELISA) 2. "Voluntary counseling and testing for HIV infection" – 2 weeks (for medical virologists, specialists in virology laboratories for the diagnosis of HIV infection, laboratory physicians of clinical-diagnostic laboratories of medical institutions of health, health stakeholders relevant to the organization of the offices of trust, general practitioners and specialist services, which operate or plan to work in offices and VCT, doctors, psychologists, psychologists with the highest non-medical education) 3. "Polymerase chain reaction and enzyme immunoassay in the laboratory diagnosis of viral infections" – 2 weeks (for medical virologists, microbiologists physicians, medical laboratory technicians in various fields of medical institutions: diagnostic centers, diagnostic laboratories blood service centers to combat HIV-AIDS, doctors laboratory carrying out laboratory diagnostics ToRCH-infection by ELISA, infectious disease physicians, epidemiologists, and others. 4. "The strategy and tactics of the laboratory diagnosis of HIV infection at the present stage of fight with AIDS" – 2 weeks (for doctors and virologists, laboratory specialists, and laboratory doctors of clinical-diagnostic laboratories of medical institutions of health, transfusion stations and units of blood transfusion). 5. "Rapid tests in the laboratory diagnosis of HIV infection" – 1 week (for medical virologists, specialists in virology, laboratory physicians, infectious disease physicians, tuberculosis specialists, internists, pediatricians, obstetricians, dermatovenereologists, psychologists, and psychologists with non-medical education focused on mastery of skills with rapid HIV tests).
Internship Internship at the Department of Virology and Department of Microbiology and Epidemiology, specialty "Virology and Microbiology" for graduates medical universities (as a mandatory form of primary specialization) in postgraduate training of medical graduates III-IV accreditation levels.
Department also provides training of doctors and nurses of Ukraine on site courses, seminars, direct regional and district health care facilities.
COST ACCOUNTING ACTIVITY:
Traineeship in virology Traineeship in virology under the individual plan – 1 month (during the year on request)
Courses of information and training Courses of information and training, "Polymerase chain reaction in the laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases"
Research work on a contractual basis:
Scientific work:
Research work of the department of Virology for the period from 2010 to 2012: - Viral diarrheal diseases of humans: biological and molecular genetic characteristics of pathogens isolated in the territory of Ukraine, optimization methods for specific diagnosis and prevention of these diseases. - Study of the role of viral pathogens in the appearance and characteristics of the current community-acquired pneumonia to optimize diagnosis and treatment of this disease.
The most important scientific achievements of department: - Proposed modern methods of isolation, purification and concentration of rota- and enteroviruses from clinical specimens of patients that objects of the external environment with the use of bentonite, aminoetoxiaerosil-2 and enterosgel. - Designed and proposed a new model of rotavirus infection in pigs, to study the pathogenesis in gnotobiots, effectiveness of medication and specific prevention. - First, a new highly immunogenic inactivated vaccine for the prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis. Prepared and approved by the regulatory and technical documentation on the "New enhanced immunogenicity of inactivated vaccine for the prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis," for veterinary use to successfully pass the state tests and recommended for introduction into mass production. - A method of synchronization of cell cultures in G1-phase of the cell cycle with macromolecular complexes of bivalent platinum. - A new biotechnology cultivation of virus in synchronized cell systems with the use of macromolecular Pt complexes. - A new biotechnology cultivation of surface0 cell cultures of human and animals in a packed system of bands of polyethylene. - A new tool, connecting and deducing from an organism pathogenic viruses and bacteria, heavy metals and regenerating failure of macro-and micronutrients. - The method of the "Laferon" preparation in the treatment of rotavirus infection in infants. - A method for concentrating viruses from liquids using a hydrogel of methylsilicic acid. - Created and tested a mathematical model for projecting efficacy of rotavirus vaccines - New approaches for the projecting genotype-specific efficacy of vaccine RotaRix for prevention of rotavirus infection in Ukraine
Address: 04112, Kiev-112, 9 Dorogozhytska St, tel. (044) 205-49-88, 456-28-89. Idzyublyk@ukr.net; Trokhimenko@ukr.net
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