Clinicians and biologists expect increasing numbers of infections with hantaviruses in Germany this year due to the ongoing strong reproduction of the bank vole and the striped field mouse. The rodents function as reservoirs and spread the virus through their excrements. Dust, contaminated with the pathogen, may be inhaled by humans when sweeping a shed […]
Slowly but surely the long dark winter months come to end – fortunately, since this season is reason enough for many people to sink into melancholy. But winter depression and tiredness could actually have a medical reason, namely vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is in short supply in winter because people need UVB rays from the sun on
EUROIMMUN Brazil is official partner of Hermes Pardini Founded in 1959, Hermes Pardini has nowadays 61 branches in ten cities in the federal state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Moreover, the laboratory supports small and medium-sized labs all over the country, and ranks here among the three most important Brazilian laboratories regarding volume of analysis and
There are diseases whose pathogenesis has been known for decades. The actual cause, however, remains a secret despite intensive research. For decades, it has been known that deposits of immune complexes are formed along the basal membrane of the glomerulus in membranous nephropathy (previously known as membranous glomerulonephritits), causing tissue inflammation and impairment of kidney filtration. But the antigen which is targeted by
Sometimes, the answer yes or no or the result positive or negative is not sufficient. For example with human papillomaviruses (HPV) infections, it is important for the physician and the patient to receive more information from a diagnostic test, because in these cases positive can have more than just one meaning. Important information about HPV HPV is the
