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.

altona Diagnostics wants to thank everyone who visited us at the ECCMID in Copenhagen this year. It was a pleasure to meet so many lab professionals and talk about altona’s AltoStar® automation system as well as our broad real-time PCR test portfolio. View our image gallery.

On the 14th of April is World Chagas disease Day. Chagas is a neglected tropical disease and is endemic in about 21 countries in the Americas. It is vector-borne and caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan parasite. With the RealStar® Chagas PCR Kit 1.0 altona Diagnostics provides an in vitro diagnostic test for the qualitative detection of T. cruzi specific DNA.

altona Diagnostics invites you to the 33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Copenhagen. We are proud to participate with our new 55 sqm booth C3/17, promoting our AltoStar® automation system as well as our broad real-time PCR test portfolio.

The CE-marked ExtraStar® Purification Kit 2.0 is out now. It is used for the automated isolation and purification of nucleic acids in combination with the KingFisher™ Flex Purification System (Thermo Fisher Scientific).

The FlexStar® (RT-)PCR Amplification Mix 1.5 is now available in a new configuration, containing enough reagents to perform 96 real-time PCRs. The product is designed for the real-time PCR based amplification and detection of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) derived from human specimens.