altona has recently launched the FlexStar® UP & MH PCR Detection Mix 1.5 (RUO), which allows the qualitative detection and differentiation of Ureaplasma parvum (UP) and Mycoplasma hominis (MH). The FlexStar® STI panel now comprises 3 different detection mixes based on real-time PCR technology for the detection of specific DNA from 7 different sexually transmitted pathogens.
altona Diagnostics invites you to the 25th Congress of the European Society for Clinical Virology (ESCV) in Milan, Italy, from August 30 – September 2, 2023. We are proud to participate with our 20 sqm booth No. 21, promoting our AltoStar® automation system as well as our broad real-time PCR test portfolio.
July 28 is World Hepatitis Day, one of WHO’s officially mandated global public health days. Every year over 1 million people are dying from a hepatitis related illness, although many of these deaths could be prevented by early detection and appropriate treatment. altona Diagnostics provides four different AltoStar® ready-to-use test kits for the detection of acute and chronic viral hepatitis via real-time PCR technology. A fifth AltoStar kit, for the detection of Hepatitis D, is currently under development.
The FlexStar® LDT (RT-)PCR Detection Mix 1.5 (RUO) is out now. This detection mix is designed for the real-time PCR based amplification and detection of nucleic acids. Specific primer and probes for the amplification and detection of different pathogen combinations can be added as needed to create a lab developed test (LDT). A CE-IVD version is under development.