A conference on current infectious diseases in the region was held in Nizhny Novgorod
14  11.2025
The 13th Interregional Interdisciplinary Scientific and Practical Conference "Current Infectious Diseases of the Volga-Vyatka Region" was held on November 13–14, 2025. The event was held in person with an online broadcast.
A new method for diagnosing antibodies to the enterovirus Echovirus 30 has been developed
08  11.2025
Specialists from the Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Academician I.N. Blokhina of Rospotrebnadzor have developed and received a patent for the invention "A method for detecting antibodies to recombinant proteins VP1, VP2, and VP3 of Echovirus 30."

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Development of scientific bases and methodological approaches to solving theoretical and applied issues of epidemiology, microbiology, genetics, immunology, diagnostics and management of actual human infectious diseases (such as Hepatitis A.B.C., acute and chronic respiratory diseases, enterovirus infections, intestinal infections of bacterial and viral etiology, community-acquired pneumonia, helicobacter infection, non-gongococcal urogenital infections, HIV infection)

Study of the human microbiocenosis, establishing a pathogenic role for microbiota in infectious diseases
Elaboration of new and improvement of available tools and methods for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases using the achievements of basic research in the fields of biology, genetics, immunochemistry; their introduction into the surveillance system
Development of applied and theoretical immunology issues aimed at reducing infectious morbidity; designand implementation of rapid methods for assessing the immune and microbial status
Meeting the needs of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, practical health care in scientific support and development of the country's epidemiological surveillance systems, the latest effective tools, methods and drugs for laboratory diagnosis, prevention and treatment of infectious and environmentally related diseases and their complications, as well as clinical nutrition products, patent products, their implementation and application

Currently, the Institute is a modern well-equipped scientific and clinical complex. High scientific and practical potential of the Institute allows ensuring the solution of national tasks on monitoring of the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the region and preserving the health of the population

The Institute has 154 employees, including 9 doctors of science, 5 professors, 37 candidates of science, 1 Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, 1 Honored Healthcare Worker of the Russian Federation, 14 Excellent Healthcare Workers, 11 Honored Workers of Rospotrebnadzor.