DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY , RIGSHOSPITALET, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN Juliane Maries Vej 22, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

Contact person: Main services (diagnostic) Outline of what a visitor can expect from a one day, Clinical bacteriology, virology, parasitology, mycology, serology and one week and one month visit to the department: Mr. Prof, Dr. Med. Scient. Niels Høiby, MD hospital hygiene. All modern and conventional methods are used For one day Phone +4535457778, Fax +4535456412 except culture of mycobacteria (centralized at the State Seruminstitute). The MD’s of the department of clinical microbiology One day visit: discussions with academic personal, visit to the different Email: [email protected] have 22 clinical conferences at the Rigshospital each week at ID, ICU, laboratories and information about the methods used and the clinical Website: www.rigshospitalet.dk Haematology-Oncology, Orthopedic Surgery, Neurosurgery, microbiology work in the department including advise and recommendations Cardiology, Pediatrics including Cystic Fibrosis and also the to clinicians by phone or at face-to-face conference at the clinical Paraplegia/Tetraplegia clinic. departments. Receive selected articles about e.g. antibiotic policy, infection control, research etc. which reflect the daily work. The department of clinical microbiology has a 24-hr on call Epidemiological characteristics of the area: microbiology service for Rigshospitalet (a junior doctor in front and a For one week Low level of MRSA, relatively low level of resistant Gram-negative rods specialist in clinical microbiology as back up) and on night call for most Discussions with academic personal, visit to the different laboratories and compared to most other European countries. of the Capital Region of Zealand (1.5 mio inhabitants). information about the methods used and the clinical microbiology work in the department including advise and recommendations to clinicians by phone or Details about Rigshospitalet, at face-to-face conference at the clinical departments. Receive selected University of Copenhagen: articles about e.g. antibiotic policy, infection control, research etc. which reflect No. of wards: 102 including ID department the daily work. Participating in the routine or research work in selected Bacteriology and mycology, MALDI-TOF laboratories. Participating in department seminars and in conferences with the No. of beds: 1100 clinicians. Visit selected clinical wards. Referral hospital for Denmark, treats the most MS-based microorganism identification complicated diseases including e.g. organ and For one month bone-marrow transplantations, large trauma and In selected cases, such visits are possible, if the visitor is interested in joining burns center with heliport, hyperbar oxygen the research groups of the department. therapy center, center for cancer and leukemia.

Department of Clinical Microbiology Virology, real time pcr diagnostic methods: 9301 The department of clinical microbiology is located in two large laboratories in Juliane Outline of accommodation facilities: separate buildings and has additional Maries Hotel Cabinn, Frederiksberg, DKK 545, www.cabb-inn.com research laboratories at the University Vej 22 Institute of Immunology, international Hotel CabInn, Copenhagen, DKK 545, www.cabb-inn.com Health and Microbiology, at the Panum Youth Hostel, Amager, DKK 390,, www.danhostel.dk Institute across the street or via the 7602 tunnel under the street and also has Youth Hostel, Lyngby-Taarbaek, DKK 390,00, www.danhostel.dk Tagens- access to the core facilities for Bed & Breakfast, Nærum, DKK 300,00, www. bedandbreakfast.dk vej 18 experimental animal research. Department of Medical Directions to the department: Bacteriology, Panum The nearest airport is Copenhagen (Kastrup) Airport. From there you can take the Staff Institute, University of metro to Nørreport Station and from there you can take bus line 42, 43, 150S or 185 (it will take about 5-10 min.), or you can walk from the station to Rigshospitalet (it will Clinical Microbiology: CM Specialists: 6, one adjunct professor of clinical Copenhagen: take about 25-35 min.) microbiology (at University of Århus) Niels Frimodt Møller, one professor of bacteriology Niels Høiby, three associate professors of bacteriology Helle Krogh Johansen, Claus Moser and parasitology Jørgen Kurtzhals (all four at Major Research interests of the department University of Copenhagen) and a specialist in virology Claus Bohn Christiansen. Chronic biofilm infection especially P. auruginosa lung infection in 2 molecular biologists and one biologist, 51 technical staffs and secretaries cystic fibrosis including quorum sensing. Antibiotic resistance mechanisms of biofilms Section of Hospital Hygiene and Infection Control: Antibiotic resistance mechanisms generally 1 CM specialist Leif P. Andersen Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics 2 nurses, 5 technicians and secretaries Malaria infections CMV infections

Helicobacter infections Our first language is Danish and the other language spoken by the staff is English. An important research topic – chronic P. aeruginosa biofilm Number of analyses year 2013: 281,394 infections in the respiratory tracts of cystic fibrosis patients. Rigshospitalet is located in the The entrances to Department of Clinical center of Copenhagen Microbiology are 76 (left) and 93 (right)