altona Diagnostics welcomes you to the 34th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain, from April 27-30, 2024! We will participate with our 63 sqm booth (B3, Hall 7), promoting our AltoStar^® automation system including the soon to be launched AI based AltoStar^® Analysis package as well as our broad real-time PCR test portfolio.

altona Diagnostics welcomes you to the 34th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain, from April 27-30, 2024! We will participate with our 63 sqm booth (B3, Hall 7), promoting our AltoStar^® automation system including the soon to be launched AI based AltoStar^® Analysis package as well as our broad real-time PCR test portfolio.

After more than six years at the helm of the Argentine and Brazilian subsidiaries of altona Diagnostics based in Buenos Aires and São Paulo, founding Managing Director Hans Kuhn handed over responsibilities to Mariela Aranda and Julianna Shibao. The change in management has been effective since April 1, 2024.

The AltoStar^® C. auris PCR Kit 1.5 (RUO) is available now. The AltoStar^® C. auris PCR Kit 1.5 is a reagent system, based on real-time PCR technology, for the qualitative detection of Candida auris specific DNA. It is designed for use with the automated AltoStar^® Workflow. The kit is for research use only (RUO).

Alaskapox virus (AKPV) is a new Orthopoxvirus species that caused the first case of severe Alaskapox infection with hospitalization and death in Alaska at the end of January 2024. With the RealStar^® Orthopoxvirus PCR Kit 1.0 you can detect Orthopoxvirus species specific DNA, including the Alaskapox virus.

Timor-Leste (East Timor), a country about 600 km north from Australia, is facing a potential epidemic of mosquito-borne diseases, specifically Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya. altona Diagnostics offers suitable CE-IVD marked RT-PCR kits to combat the potential epidemic.