Manager: Dorota Kociszewska, M. Sc. in pharmacy
Phone no.: (0-22) 58-41-217, 58-41-272
e-mail zakl.bakteriologii@szpital-orlowskiego.pl
Location: 1st floor, block A

Hours of receipt of material for analysis and issue of examination results: Monday-Friday 7-2 p.m., Saturday, Sunday and holidays 8 – 11 a.m.

The Clinical Bacteriology Lab performs microbiological examinations for the patients of the clinical wards of the hospital, the Specialization Clinic and it renders commercial services: for individual persons, who are not patients of our hospital, as well as private practices and labs. Annually, we perform about 10 thousand examinations.

The scope of examinations performed includes microbiological diagnostics of the following clinical materials: urine, sputum, pus, blood, body fluids, respiratory tract swabs, genitourinary tract swabs, infected wounds, specimens obtained during surgery, fecal analysis for Clostridium difficile (toxin A/B and culture) and others.

Microbiological diagnostics includes material culture, isolation of pathogenic aerobic microorganisms, anaerobic microorganisms and anascogenic yeasts from clinical material, identification and determination of drug sensitiveness of microorganisms with assessment of the presence of mechanisms of resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents.
Moreover, the scope of tests performed includes control of sterilization processes and microbiological control of the hospital environment.

The equipment

The Bacteriology Lab units are equipped with apparatus for quick diagnostics of infections – an automatic system of monitoring of blood and body fluid cultures (BacT/ALERT) and the automatic ATB system for identification and marking of drug sensitiveness of microorganisms.

The quality

For many years, we have participated in the Nationwide Extra-Laboratory Microbiological Examination Reliability Test – POLMICRO, conducted by the Central Unit for Assessment of Quality in Microbiological Diagnostics. Within the framework of this monitoring, we obtain very good marks and a certificate each year.

We participate in the works of the Nationwide Network for Monitoring of Drug Resistance of Microorganisms and Promotion of Rational Prevention and Treatment of Infections OPTY, the Programme of Supervision of Invasive Bacterial Infections Acquired Outside the Hospital BINET and the National Programme for Protection of Antibiotics.

We participate in multicenter clinical research on drug sensitiveness of microorganisms, conducted by the National Institute for Pubic Health and pharmaceutical companies (including the assessment of sensitiveness of microorganisms to new antibiotics).