Five years ago, the ICAP initiative on harmonisation and standardisation in the nomenclature of HEp-2 IFA patterns was implemented at the International Workshop on Autoantibodies and Autoimmunity (IWAA) in São Paulo, Brazil. Luis E. C. Andrade, professor at the Rheumatology Division, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, has been involved from the […]
Recently, a new law on measles vaccination has been passed in Germany. As of March 2020, all children in Germany from the age of one year must present proof of their vaccination against measles, as recommended by the Standing Committee on Vaccination (StiKO), before their admission into crèche, kindergarten, school or other childcare, such as
Recently, a very interesting review article on the diagnostics of bullous dermatoses has been published in Frontiers of Immunology, a peer-reviewed journal. The publication is authored by EUROIMMUN scientists, who were invited to write an expert review article on this important topic. Over the past few years, EUROIMMUN has become a true leader in this
This months, EUROIMMUN has celebrated a small milestone: a total of 100 EUROLabWorkstation (ELW) have been completed, 65 ELW ELISA and 35 ELW IFA. Since their introduction to the market in 2017 and 2019, respectively, the systems have been successfully installed with customers worldwide, including leading laboratory chains in the USA, Germany and Brazil. The
In the late 1980s, scientists discovered for the first time autoantibodies that are associated with neurological diseases, first and foremost anti-Hu, anti-Ri and anti-Yo. Since then, test systems for these antibodies have become established in diagnostics and have enabled many life-saving medical findings. Neuroimmunology has now advanced further: 52 different neural autoantibodies have found their
