Istituto nazionale per le malattie infettive

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Istituto nazionale per le malattie infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani
place Rome
Country ItalyItaly Italy
Coordinates 41 ° 51 '58 "  N , 12 ° 27' 27"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 51 '58 "  N , 12 ° 27' 27"  E
General Director Marta Branca
areas of expertise Infectious diseases
founding 1936
Website www.inmi.it
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The INMI building in Rome

The Istituto nazionale per le malattie infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani (abbreviation: INMI ) is a state medical research institute for the prevention , diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in Rome .

history

The "National Institute for Infectious Diseases" named after Lazzaro Spallanzani was founded in 1936 and is also a hospital dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. Its 15 pavilions are located on an area of ​​134,000 m² in the middle of the area of ​​the Ospedale San Camillo, founded in 1929 .

In the 1930s a department was established to deal with the treatment and rehabilitation of patients suffering from poliomyelitis . In the 1970s, INMI's research concentrated on hepatitis B , which led to increased competence in the treatment of acute and chronic forms of viral hepatitis . From 1980 the INMI was an important center in the treatment of HIV infections.

The buildings were enlarged in 1991. In 1996, the Italian Ministry of Health declared INMI a medical research institute ( Italian Istituto di ricovero e cura a carattere scientifico , abbreviation: IRCCS), and a national pillar in the first years of the 21st century against bioterrorism . INMI specializes in the treatment of serious and novel infectious diseases such as SARS , Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers and MERS .

The institute has one of two high security laboratories of the highest security level L4 in Italy, the other is located in the Ospedale Luigi Sacco in Milan .

On November 25, 2014, the Italian emergency physicians Fabrizio Pulvirenti was the Institute admitted that during his work in Sierra Leone with the Ebola virus had infected, he could leave the hospital on January 2, 2015.

Role in the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy , the first two patients in Italy with the COVID-19 disease were treated at Spallanzani , two Chinese tourists from Hubei Province, aged 66 and 67.

On February 2 of the same year, the Italian Minister of Health Roberto Speranza announced at a press conference that a three-person research group from Spallanzani had succeeded in isolating the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 . It concerned the three institute employees Maria Rosaria Capobianchi , Francesca Colavita and Concetta Castilletti . Parts of the genome were then made available on the GenBank portal .

From February 6, 2020, the first Italian to test positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus was treated in Spallanzani . It was one of 56 Italian citizens who were brought home from Wuhan on a special flight.

Individual evidence

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  6. ^ Coronavirus in Italia, chi sono i turisti cinesi ricoverati allo Spallanzani: arrivati ​​a Milano il 23 gennaio. In: Il Messaggero . January 30, 2020, accessed March 27, 2020 (Italian).
  7. ^ Coronavirus, lo Spallanzani di Roma è il primo in Europa a isolarlo. Un morto nelle Filippine, finora unica vittima fuori dalla Cina. In: Il Fatto Quotidiano . February 2, 2020, accessed March 27, 2020 (Italian).
  8. ↑ Coronavirus, chi sono le tre ricercatrici che hanno isolato il virus. In: Il Sole 24 ORE. Retrieved March 27, 2020 (Italian).
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  10. ^ Coronavirus, primo italiano positivo: è uno dei connazionali rimpatriati da Wuhan. Morto il medico cinese che aveva lanciato l'sos. In: Il Fatto Quotidiano . February 6, 2020, accessed March 27, 2020 (Italian).