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University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Golnik

  • nrl_sloveniaestablished in 1921 - sanatorium for TB patients;
  • today:
    • clinical institution
    • 45 MD, 220 beds
    • 8 clinical wards, 7,500 clinical admissions and 46,000 outpatients' consultations a year;
      educational institution for MD, under- and postgraduate students of medicine and health care;
      research work - 20 researchers (no professional); co-operation within projects:
      • IMCA II (the 7th FP ),
      • 2 projects (the 6th FP),
      • 6 other European projects,
      • 21 Slovenian projects.

National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria GOLNIK

  • Diagnostic laboratory - performs more than 85% of laboratory diagnostics of TB and other mycobacterial diseases in Slovenia:
    smears (n= 9,200),
    cultures (n= 9,300),
    direct NAAT (n=1600),
    identification of MTc, NTM,
    DST (PM, BACTEC MGIT 960),
    DNA fingerprinting (on all C+ patients),
    IGRA - QFT (n=1500);
  • EQC - for all tests (except QFT) for several years;
  • educational and advisory centre for some Balkans TB centre (Bosnia and Herzegovina,
    Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia);
  • research.

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NRL Slovenia
Manca Zolnir-Dovc, PhD
Specialist in Medical Microbiology
Head
Mycobacteriology Laboratory National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria Golnik, 36 4204 Golnik
Slovenia
Website:
http://www.klinika-golnik.si/en/index.php

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