Medical Microbiology and Parasitology

General information

+385 1 45 90 115

Head of department

prof. dr. sc. Sunčanica Ljubin Sternak

prof. dr. sc. Ana Budimir

izv. prof. dr. sc. Zrinka Bošnjak

Medical Microbiology, in Croatian – III study year (90 hours, 8 ECTS)
Clinical Microbiology, in Croatian – IV study year (30 hours, 2 ECTS)
Medical Microbiology, in English – III study year (152 hours, 10 ECTS, Assoc. Prof. Tatjana Vilibić Čavlek, MD, PhD)

HPV infection – The latest knowledge (IV year, Prof. J. Vraneš)
Multiresistant bacteria – the causative agents of hospital infections (IV year, Prof. B. Bedenić)
Biofilm infections – problem of modern medicine (V study year, Prof. J. Vraneš)
Children gastrointestinal infections (VI study year, Prof. A. Lukić Grlić)
How to stop hospital infection (IV study year, Prof. A. Budimir)
Microbiology of sepsis (III study year, Prof. I. Mareković)
The causative agents of zoonosis (III study year, Assoc. Prof. T. Vilibić Čavlek)
Modern diagnostics and epidemiology of children viral infections (III study year, Prof. S. Ljubin Sternak)
Tuberculosis and non-tuberculosis mycobacteriae – an old and a new diagnostic problem (IV study year, Prof. I. Mareković)
Laboratory diagnostics of infections in pregnancy (IV study year, Assoc. Prof. N. Beader)
Parasitic infections in the era of globalization and climate changes (IV study year, Assoc. Prof. M. Sviben and Assoc. Prof. T. Vilibić Čavlek)

Graduate study in Nursing

Quality assurance of work in nursing (I study year, 125 hours, Assoc. Prof. Z. Bošnjak)
Hospital infections (elective course, II study year, 60 hours, Prof. A. Budimir)

Postgraduate studies

Postgraduate specialist study Clinical microbiology (60 ECTS bodova, Prof. Sunčanica Ljubin Sternak, Prof. Branka Bedenić);

Courses on other postgraduate specialist studies:

Selected chapters in microbiology (Postgraduate specialist study Epidemiology, Prof. S. Ljubin Sternak)
Microbiology (Postgraduate specialist study General Surgery, Prof. J. Vraneš)
Selected chapters in microbiology (Postgraduate specialist study Urology, Prof. I. Mareković)
Selected chapters in clinical microbiology (Postgraduate specialist study Pediatrics, Prof. J. Vraneš)

Courses on the PhD Programme Biomedicine and Health:

Pathogenesis of infectious diseases (Prof. J. Vraneš)
Biomaterial infections (Prof. J. Vraneš)
Multiresistant bacteria – the causative agens of hospital infections (Prof. B. Bedenić)

Scientific research projects

University of Zagreb Grants:

Influence of COVID-19 pandemic on the epidemiology and diagnostics of non SARS-CoV-2 viral respiratory infections (Principal investigator: Prof. Sunčanica Ljubin Sternak)
The importance of enterococci as causative agents of bacteriemia in the era of bacterial resistance to antibiotics (Principal investigator: Prof. Ivana Mareković)
Cytokine inflammatory response in patients with tick-borne meningitis. (Principal investigator: Assoc. Prof. Tatjana Vilbić Čavlek)
Comparison of characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae OXA-48 isolated from samples from hospitalized and no- hospitalized patients (Principal investigator: Assoc. Prof. Nataša Beader)
Molecular detection of carbapenem resistance genes in isolates of enterobacteriae and acinetobacter in surgical patients (Principal investigator: Assoc. Prof. Zrinka Bošnjak)

Teaching staff and teaching associates

prof. dr. sc. Nataša Beader

prof. dr. sc. Branka Bedenić

prof. dr. sc. Ana Budimir

prof. dr. sc. Sunčanica Ljubin Sternak

prof. dr. sc. Ivana Mareković

prof. dr. sc. Jasmina Vraneš

izv. prof. dr. sc. Zrinka Bošnjak

izv. prof. dr. sc. Mario Sviben

izv. prof. dr. sc. Tatjana Vilibić Čavlek

doc. dr. sc. Ljiljana Žmak

dr. sc. Maja Mijač

dr. sc. Maja Bogdanić

doc. dr. sc. Sanja Pleško

Expert and technical staff

Silvija Anđal Smola

Lucija Krišto

Esmina Prahin

Vesna Šušković-Mihiček

Support staff

Ana Jurkić

Fikreta Mujadžić