altona Diagnostics is the culmination of over 25 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:
Mad cow disease (BSE)
SARS-Coronavirus
Bird Flu (H5N1)
Chikungunya virus
Influenza A / B and Swine Flu (H1N1)pdm09
Malaria (human pathogenic Plasmodium species, including Plasmodium knowlesi)
MERS-Coronavirus
Ebolavirus
Zika virus
Lassa virus
Yellow fever virus
Launch of the AltoStar® Molecular Diagnostic Workflowaltona Diagnostics receives CE-IVD mark for HCV RT-PCR test
SARS-CoV-2 - causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Relaunch of AltoStar® products designed to fulfill IVDR requirements
Monkeypox/mpox virus
altona Diagnostics GmbH
Mörkenstr. 12
22767 Hamburg, Germany