Research
Medical Microbiology
DVM, School of Veterinary Medicine, Copenhagen, 1946
Ph.D. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1962
Senior Research Fellow, Veterinary Serum Institute, Copenhagen, 1946-1950
Joined Bar-Ilan University 1957 and acted till 1970 as Head of the Department of Microbiology, which was subsequently merged with other units to be later known as the Department of Life Sciences
Head, National Reference Laboratory for Staphylococcus Typing, 1957-1986
Head, National Reference Laboratory for Mycoplasma and Chlamydia, 1971-1986
Head, Reference Unit for allergy of the outer eye, 1980-1986
Member, Army Medical Mission for Humanitarian Aid to Kinshasa, Congo, 1960
Professor Emeritus since 1989
Efraim Rapoport Chair in Medical Microbiology, 1976-1989
Guest Professor, Sackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv University, 1985-1989
Guest Researcher, Dept. of Microbiology, Medical School, Copenhagen, 1986-1987
Director, Laboratory of Microbiology, Mayenei Hayeshua Hospital, Bnei Brak, Israel, 1991-present
More than 200 publications, inclusive descriptions of two new important microbial pathogens
Supervised over 50 students for M.Sc. and Ph.D
Research Interests
Microbial systematic; virulence factors; mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics; infection control
Fields of Research
The first period in Israel was dedicated to the organization of a credible microbial laboratory service in an area crowded with immigrants in encampments and temporary settlements with a low standard of sanitation. These conditions led the direction of the "new" Bar-Ilan University to urge the academic education of learned staff for Medical Science. I was trusted with the organization of education in Microbiology, in cooperation with many well-known competent scientists. These activities have provided our nation a considerable proportion of prominent personalities in Medical Science - once students (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.) of Bar-Ilan University, today serving in prominent positions of the Ministry of Health and all medical institutions of the country. The cooperation with these students enabled a series of studies in different fields of medical microbiology. Several hundred publications were the result of this cooperation.
Selected Publications
Sompolinsky, D. 1953. De l'impetigo contagiosa suis et du Micrococcus hyicus n. sp. Schweiz. Arch. TierheilkD. 95:302-309
Sompolinsky, D., Ernest-Geller, Z., Segal, S. 1967. Metabolic disorders in thiamineless dwarf strains of Staphylococcus aureus. J. Gen. Microbiol. 48:205-213
Sompolinsky, D., Neujahr, H.Y. 1971. Studies on thiamine uptake in growing cultures and in cell fragments of Lactobacillus fermenti. Acta Chem. Scand. 25:3054-3066
Boldur, I., Sompolinsky, D. 1974. Antigen specific for bacteria resistant to tetracycline. Antimicrob. Ag. Chemother. 6:117-120
Sompolinsky, D., Lagziel, A., Naveh, D., Yankilevitz, T. 1978. Mycobacterium haemophilum sp. nov., a new pathogen of humans. Int. J. System. Bacteriol. 28:67-76
Sompolinsky, D., Lagziel, A., Rosenberg, I. 1979. Further studies of a new pathogenic mycobacterium (M. haemophilum sp. nov.). Can. J. Microbiol. 25:217-226
Sompolinsky, D., Samra, Z., Karakawa, W.W., Vann, W.F., Schneerson, R., Malik, Z. 1985. Encapsulation and capsular types in isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from different sources and relationship to phage types. J. Clin. Microbiol. 22:828-834
Lundberg, L., Bertelsen, C., Zavaro, A., Samra, Z., Sompolinsky, D. 1987. Experimental allergic conjunctivitis in inbred guinea pig strains with high respectively low bronchial allergic reactivity. Allergy 42:262-271
Sompolinsky, D., Katzenstein, T., Lundberg, L. 1992. Circulatory basophilia in guinea pigs with delayed-type hypersensitivity. Topical antigenic provocation induces circulatory basophilia. Allergy 47:303-308
Avrech, O.M., Samra, Z., Lazarovich, Z., Caspi, E., Jacobovich, A., Sompolinsky, D. 1994. Efficacy of the placental barrier for immunoglobulins: correlations between maternal, paternal and fetal immunoglobulin levels. Int. Arch. Allergy Immunol. 103:160-165
Nitzan, Y., Boldur, I., Afgin, Y., Barishak, Y.R., Malik, Z., Sompolinsky, D. (1996) The dynamics of inflammation of the anterior eye in a novel experimental model for hypersensitivity. Cytobios 88: 105-117
Sompolinsky, D., Nitzan, Y., Tetry, S., Wolk, M., Vulikh, I., Kerrn, M.B., Sandvang, D., Hershckovitz, G., Katcoff, D.J. (2005). Integron-mediated ESBL resistance in rare serotypes of Escherichia coli causing infections in an elderly population of Israel. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 55: 119-122
Last Updated Date : 07/07/2020
