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…
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This autumn, cases of West Nile virus and Zika virus infections due to transmission by infected mosquitoes have occurred locally for the first time in Germany and France. These cases of locally acquired infections are also named autochthonous cases. Several…
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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…
Recently, a very interesting review article on the diagnostics of bullous dermatoses has been published in Frontiers of Immunology, a peer-reviewed journal. The…
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 i…
Guest contribution of the Union Clinical Laboratory, Taiwan:The Union Clinical Laboratory (UCL) was established in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1973 with a total 100 empl…