Georgian Academy of Sciences       

G.Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology

Address:

3, Gotua Street
380060, Tbilisi
Georgia
Tel: +995 32 37 42 27 or +995 32 23 32 95
Fax: +995 32 99 91 53 or +995 32 22 19 65
E-mail: [email protected]

Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/5386

Date of Foundation: 1923
The institute was founded by Georgian scientist Professor George Eliava and his French-Canadian colleague Felix D'Herelle - the discoverer of bacteriophages.

Major research trends:

a)Therapeutic bacteriophages (phages) for treatment and prophylactics of different human and animal bacterial diseases, such as: Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, E. coli, Pseudomonas, Proteus, Salmonalla, Shigella, Serratia, Klebsialla, Enterobacter, Campilobacter, Yersinia, Brucella, etc. Most of these phage have been widely applied in clinics throughout the former Soviet Union.
b)Phage typing;
A number of original phage typing patterns have been elaborated for epidemiology studies, in particular, Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella paratyphy A,B, Sshigella, Proteus, Yersinia. The patterns are destined for identification of source of infection routs of its spread in environment. One of them is constructed for S. typhimurium (I. Chirakadze, 1979). The scheme is adopted by the World Health Organization and recommended for use in developing countries.
c)Study of bio-active substances of bacterial origin;
Hyaluronidase isolated from Staphylococcus aureus strain has been successfully proved in clinical studies for treatment post-oprational and burn scarms.
d)Research on endemic Caucasian lactic acid bacteria has been started in 1995. A collection enumrating about 100 lactobaccili and lactococci has been created, among them there are: Lactobacillus delbrueki, ssp. Lactis, Lactocacilus acidophilus, Lactocacillus casei, Streptococcus thermophilus, Enterococcus faecium, etc.

Director:
Teimuraz Chanishvili, Professor, Active member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

Personnel of the institute:
100 scientists and technicians, 9 Doctors of Sciences, 24 - Candidates of Sciences.

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