Head of the centre:
Natalia Nikolaevna Sbitneva
Candidate of Biological Sciences and author of 16 peer-reviewed articles. Her research focuses on the virology and molecular biology of pathogens causing enteric viral infections.
Telephone: +7 (343) 261-99-47, ext. 142. Email: sbitneva_nn@eniivi.ru
Main responsibilities and functions of the centre
The Ural-Siberian Regional Scientific and Methodological Centre for Enterovirus Infections was established under Rospotrebnadzor Order No. 1236 of 19 December 2016 and began operating in spring 2017. It serves eleven regions: all six in the Ural Federal District—Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen and Kurgan oblasts, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug—and five in the Siberian Federal District—Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo oblasts and Altai Krai. The centre collects enterovirus infection surveillance data; analyses and assesses the epidemiological situation to guide outbreak-control and preventive measures; provides methodological and practical assistance to Rospotrebnadzor’s regional offices and institutions in surveillance, diagnosis and prevention; and conducts molecular genetic and phylogenetic analyses of circulating enteroviruses.
Publications
The centre publishes an annual information bulletin, ‘Enterovirus Infection in the Ural Federal District and Western Siberia’.