Viral Infections Laboratory

The laboratory was founded by the academician V.M. Zhdanov in 1946. The basic investigation directions of the laboratory were the following: scientific researches on the problem of neuroinfection, poliomyelitis, influenza, rota- and the coronaviruses enteric infections. At present, the efforts of the scientific researches of the laboratory are directed on study of the role of herpesviruses in perinatal pathology and morbidity of young age children. The system for the complex virus-morphological prognosis of a risk degree for the evolution of intrauterino herpesviruses pathology is developed. The purpose of this investigation is a decreasing of morbidity, disability and mortality at newborns.

Panchenko Ludmila Aleksandrovna, Head of the virology laboratory, M.D., Professor. She has 146 scientific works, including the monograph and 7 patents. The author of the two original strains of viruses of an influenza and coronavirus: Kharkov /105/86 and Kharkov /343/86.

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• Panchenko Ludmila Aleksandrovna, Head of the virology laboratory, M.D., Professor.
• Popova Ludmila Alekseevna, research scientist
• Popova Natalya Gennadievna, research scientist