WHO Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis since 1992 

• Hospital - IIIth level  of reference
• Research category - I  (acc. State Committee for Scientific Research)
• Beds - 450
• Patients - 9000/year
• Main profile: diseases of respiratory system, infectious diseases, tbc ( 250 pts/year),  lungs cancer, thoracic surgery
• Depts: microbiology- NRTB Lab, epidemiology and TB control, radiology, physiopatology, pathology, thoracic surgery, lung diseases, intensive care, pulmonology, cardiology, anesthesiology, ICU,
• Co-operation with Polish Ministry of Health.

Our activities: education

• Pulmonologists and internal medicine specialists.
• Organising training in the National TB and Lung Disease Research Institute and in the Centre for Postgraduate Education in Warsaw.
• Guest lectures given at externally-organised events and at the meetings of pulmonologists to explain DOTS strategy.
• WHO/KNCV Regional Training in TB Control Programme Management
• Tuberculosis: transmission and environmental control, diagnosis and the role of various techniques, case management and prevention of drug resistant tuberculosis
• TB management in groups risk: contact, prisoners, TB/HIV, others 

Department of Microbiology in NationalTuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory

30 workers:

   Prof. -1, Assoc.Prof-1, Ph.D - 3,

   BSc. specialists in microbiology and genetics - 8, Ph.D students - 2

   technicians-9, sanitarians - 4, admin.staff

4 labs,

1. Tuberculosis and mycobacteriosis:  detection,AFB, culture Bactec 460 Tb, Bactec MGIT 960 ,MB/BacT, Gen_Probe, ProbeTec, identification gene-probs, HPLC, Hsp-65, DST, molecular typing (spoligo, IS 6110 RFLP, MIRU, contact tracing,  mutations.

2. Monitoring of tuberculosis: bioavailability of TB drugs by HPLC and molecular typing  of acetylation in patient

3. General microbiology: detection, identification of pathogens Phenix, monitoring  and molecular typing of nosocomial infections in hospital

4. Mycology:fungal infections in patients, genetic similarity, antigens, antibodies, dermatophytes