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altona Diagnostics is the culmination of over twenty years of their innovative achievements. These accomplishments include the first identification of mad cow disease (BSE) in Germany (2000). The team of altona Diagnostics and its predecessor company artus Diagnostics released several of the world’s first commercially available real-time PCR test systems detecting human infectious diseases:

2000

Mad cow disease (BSE)

2003

SARS-Coronavirus

2005

Bird Flu (H5N1)

2008

Chikungunya virus

2009

Influenza A / B and Swine Flu (H1N1)pdm09

2012

Malaria (human pathogenic Plasmodium species, including Plasmodium knowlesi)

2013

MERS-Coronavirus

2014

Ebolavirus (Ebola and Marburg viruses)

2016

Zika virus

2017

Lassa virus

2018

Yellow fever virus Launch of the AltoStar® Molecular Diagnostic Workflow

2019

altona Diagnostics receives CE-IVD mark for HCV RT-PCR test

2020

SARS-CoV-2 - causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

2021

Relaunch of AltoStar® products designed to fulfill IVDR requirements

2022

Monkeypox virus