Anika Z. has decided to leave EUROIMMUN. In this interview she describes her time here and why she is leaving. Please introduce yourself briefly. My name is Anika. I was born in November 1988 and live south of Schwerin. I worked at EUROIMMUN in Lübeck for 3 ½ years. Sadly, you are leaving EUROIMMUN. What […]
They are nasty: they are itching, they scale, inflame, hurt and really do not look nice – fungal skin and nail infections! And not only the therapy may turn into a test of patience, if it, as it happens so often, requires application for several months. Also diagnosis of infection and identification of the pathogen
In its recent epidemiological bulletin (no. 15) the German Robert Koch Institute reports about exceedingly high numbers of hantavirus infections in Germany. In total, 1,713 cases had been registered in 2017 – in the previous year, there were only 298. Indeed, the number of infections fluctuates considerably from year to year. Also 2007, 2010 and 2012 were
When antibodies of class IgE against the peanut proteins Ara h2 and Ara h6 are detected in a patient sample, this finding points with high probability to a clinical peanut allergy. After eating a peanut, the binding between IgE antibodies and their target proteins leads to the activation of mast cells. The activated immune cells
In December 2017, the German Society for Rheumatology (DGRh) published their first guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of ANCA-associated forms of vasculitis (AAV) [1]. The AAV encompass granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA, formerly Wegener’s granulomatosis), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA, formerly Churg-Strauss syndrome), which all occur with autoantibodies against cytoplasmic antigens
