altona has recently launched the FlexStar® CT & NG PCR Detection Mix 1.5 (RUO), our first product of the STI (sexually transmitted infection) panel.

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.

altona has recently launched the FlexStar® CT & NG PCR Detection Mix 1.5 (RUO), our first product of the STI (sexually transmitted infection) panel.

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.

April 25 is World Malaria Day. The potentially life-threatening disease is caused by one of the 5 human pathogenic Plasmodium parasite species whereof P. falciparum and P. vivax represent the greatest threat. altona provides two RealStar® PCR malaria kits.