Department of Infectious Diseases was established in 1930 by Lubov A. ROZENIER, MD, PhD. During the WWII she trained doctors and nurses for work in military conditions.
In 1945, Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever was discovered by a team of scientists of the Department: Galina A. SIZEMOVA, Vasily P. KONSTANTINOV, and Yurii V. VESELOV.
Since 1946, the Department was headed by Assoc. Prof. Vasily P. KONSTANTINOV, who focused scientific interests on typhoid fever, relapsing fever, typhus in children, influenza, scarlet fever, and tetanus. In the post-war years, the staff of the department provided great assistance to practical health care in identifying and eliminating foci of infectious diseases on the territory of Western Siberia.
In the 1950-1960s, viral hepatitis, intestinal, airborne, and mixed infections, giardiasis, and opisthorchiasis were studied.
In the 1960-1970s, the scientific interests of the Department were focused on NAG infection, salmonellosis, and meningococcal infection.
Since 1969, the Department was headed by Assoc. Prof. Dmitry M. DALMATOV, MD, PhD, who paid special attention to the diagnosis and treatment of typhoid fever carriage in patients with opisthorchiasis.
In the years 1991-1994, the Department was led by Prof. Alexander D. SAFONOV. Under his supervision, the particular issues of epidemiology, the development of new pathogenetically substantiated methods for assessing the severity, treatment, and prevention of the most relevant infections for the West Siberian Region were studied.
In 1994, Department of Infectious Diseases and Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases were merged into a single department headed by Prof. Viktor N. DROZDOV, and in 1999 department was again divided into two different departments. Since then, Department of Infectious Diseases was headed by Prof. Alexander D. SAFONOV.
In 2017, Larisa V. PUZYREVA, MD, PhD was assigned as the head of the Department.