Ovidiu Zlatian
Department of Microbiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania
Biography
Mr. Ovidiu Zlatian graduated the Medical School in 200, with the graduation thesis "Molecular mechanisms of mithocondrial diseases with neurological manifestations”. From 2002 he is a specialist physician in laboratory medicine. His PhD project was entitled "Tumoral heterogeneity detected through phenotypic methods and molecular tests”. Currently, he works as laboratory physician in the Clinical Emergency County Hospital of Craiova, Romania, one of the biggest hospitals which deserves the South-West Oltenia region of Romania. He is also a lecturer in the Microbiology department of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania. The main research interest is epidemiology of infectious diseases and transmission of hospital infections. Also he has many articles about the antibiotic resistance of hospital strains, its dynamics and association with antibiotics consumption. Also he studies effects of various compounds on bacterial growth, as plant extracts, metals or nanoparticles. He has a particular interests in infections produced by biofilm-forming bacteria as medical implant associated infections. He is a member of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and infectious diseases, American Society of Microbiology, Romanian society of Microbiology and Romanian Society of Immunology.