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Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL)
Ministry of health, Jordan (centrlab@moh.gov.jo)
Tel: 0096264639180, Fax: 0096264642781.
In charge of project:
Dr.Aktham Haddadin (CPHL director)
Principal investigator:
Dr.Tarek Al-sanouri, Ph D.
E-mail: tareksanouri@yahoo.com.
Research team :
Halima Arrar
Mousa shouman
Nadia Alyaman
Naim Sarrawi
Fields of interest :
General objective is to develop an enhanced and sustainable surveillance system for the detection of food borne outbreaks in Jordan . The specific objectives are to (1) establish laboratory-based surveillance systems of Salmonellosis based on networks of sentinel microbiological laboratories in Jordan, (2) enhance laboratory capabilities to identify Salmonella spp at the level of sentinel labs, (3) strengthen existing capabilities and develop new ones for characterization of Salmonella spp using phenotypic and genotypic markers at the level of reference laboratories and
(4) Monitoring of antimicrobial resistance among Salmonella isolates.
Curriculum:
Holder of Ph.D in microbiology from National medical university named after O.O Bogomolets in 1997 Kiev/Ukraine Recruited at MOH CPHL in 2001.Member of the Jordanian society for medical laboratories.
At the beginning interested in Sexually transmitted diseases (STD's) Trichomonas vaginalis, Chlamydia, Mycoplasma.
At present time Our CPHL interested in Studying Enteric bacterial pathogens (Salmonella, Shigella, E.coli) and molecular characterization of resistance.
Our lab working in collaboration with Jordanian universities for the training of laboratory technicians.
In collaboration with University of Sassari we characterized Salmonella .Typhi strains isolated from outbreak in Jordan during 2004-2005.
Key Publications:
Tarek M. Al-sanouri "Attribution of Staphylococci ,isolated from patients with Trichmonas Urethritis -Journal of microbiology Academy of sciences of Ukraine ,1995,vol 57,N5,p63-68.
Tarek M. Al-sanouri Microbial association under Trichomonas Urethritis "Electron microscopic studies "Journal of microbiology academy of sciences of Ukraine ,1996 ,vol 58,N2 P.61 -69 .
Tarek M Al-Sanouri*, Bianca Paglietti*, Aktham Haddadin, Manuela Murgia, Donatella Bacciu, Mohammad Youssef, and Salvatore Rubino
Emergence of Plasmid-Mediated Multi-drug Resistance in epidemic and endemic strains of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi in Jordan.(Submitted for publication )