Das Jahr 2020 hat uns alle überrascht. Was sich zunächst mit ersten ungewöhnlichen Krankheitsfällen in China ankündigte, entwickelte sich binnen weniger Monate zu einer globalen Pandemie. Die Corona-Krise hat sowohl Privat- und Berufsleben jedes Einzelnen als auch die Wirtschaft gehörig…
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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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Recently, a very interesting review article on the diagnostics of bullous dermatoses has been published in Frontiers of Immunology, a peer-reviewed journal. 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 a…
According to a current publication of the European Centre for Prevention and Control of Diseases (ECDC), this year’s total number of cases exceeds the total n…
Over the past years, a global spread of a multitude of new viruses and other pathogens has been observed, leading to previously unknown diseases. Lately, there…