Microbiology
The area of Microbiology is physically distributed between four different laboratories. Three laboratories are found in the hospital buildings; these perform the bacteriological test for admitted patients, including the studies of hospital acquired infections.
The fourth laboratory is located in the Central Laboratory in Viladecavalls. This laboratory focuses on the following areas:
- General Bacteriology.
- Mycosis.
- Mycobacteria: Molecular identification, Conventional antibiogram of first and second line, and resistance detection with molecular methodologies.
- Parasitology.
- Mechanisms of Bacterial Resistance.
- Microbiologic Diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases.
- Infectious Serology: chemoluminescence,automated ELISA, ELFA, IFI and manual.
- Molecular microbiology
- Molecular microbiology based diagnosis of different infection-causing microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi, mycobacteria, parasites…)
- Molecular Epidemiology by means of Rep-PCR: Clonal studies.
- Molecular Laboratory for the detection of different bacterial resistance mechanisms ( AMPc, Carbapenemases, ß-lactamases...)
- Bacterial Genotyping.
- Reference Laboratory for the molecular diagnosis of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs).
- Reference Laboratory for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1).
Studies : Viral load
- Study of the Hepatitis virus :
Hepatitis B: Viral load and genotype.
Hepatitis C: Viral load, genotype and sub-type.
