The three-year wait was finally over: on June 10, 2022, around 450 altona employees and their families from all over the world came together at the historical Fischauktionshalle in Hamburg Altona. Enjoy the image gallery.

Cases of monkeypox virus have been confirmed inside and outside the EU since mid-May and new cases continue to appear. altona Diagnostics is ready to supply health facilities and laboratories with a sufficient number of kits.

In light of the current multinational monkeypox outbreak in at least 14 countries altona Diagnostics is delivering its Orthopoxvirus PCR test kit to key public health institutes worldwide.

ASM Clinical Virology Symposium from May 1 – 4, 2022 in West Palm Beach, Florida USA
German Biotechnology Days 2022 from May 4 – 5, 2022 in Hamburg, Germany
Scottish Microbiology Association – Spring Meeting from May 1 – 4, 2022 in Glasgow, UK
CVN Annual Scientific Conference from May 10 – 11, 2022 in Birmingham, UK
NVML – Zoonoses Congress May 10, 2022 in Amersfoort, Netherlands
NVAMM Symposium May 13, 2022 in Amersfoort, Netherlands<br

Malaria, which is caused by one of the 5 human pathogenic Plasmodium species, is a severe illness in tropic and subtropic regions. altona Diagnostics offers two in vitro diagnostic tests, based on real-time PCR technology, for the detection of Plasmodium spp. specific DNA.

altona has developed the first commercially available PCR test for the detection of yellow fever, the RealStar® Yellow Fever Virus RT-PCR Kit 1.0. The test is featured on the start page of the WHO “Eliminate yellow fever epidemics (EYE)” website: https://www.who.int/initiatives/eye-strategy.