At the end of last year, EUROIMMUN and Xpedite Diagnostics announced the start of a strategic partnership. Now the time has come: EUROArray SwiftX-traction is a rapid extraction procedure enabling the isolation of pathogen DNA for further analysis using EUROIMMUN’s EUROArrays. It has been especially developed for EUROIMMUN and is now approved worldwide for diagnostic […]
Guest contribution: Article series on the subject of state-of-the-art mycology in dermatology, 9th article by Prof Hans-Jürgen Tietz, Director of the Institute of Fungal Diseases in Berlin, Germany Recently, a patient said goodbye to me with the words: “If we are not successful with the culture, then I want the genetic test. My health insurance
Guest contribution: Article series on the subject of state-of-the-art mycology in dermatology, 8th article by Prof Hans-Jürgen Tietz, Director of the Institute of Fungal Diseases in Berlin, Germany “The Times They Are a-Changin” is one of the best known songs from Bob Dylan, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As frequently acknowledged, the
Guest contribution: Article series on the subject of state-of-the-art mycology in dermatology, 7th article by Prof Hans-Jürgen Tietz, Director of the Institute of Fungal Diseases in Berlin, Germany This pathogen’s discovery was a complete coincidence. In 1989, I had a teaching assignment at the medical faculty in Luanda, where I was supposed to teach medical
Guest contribution: Article series on the subject of state-of-the-art mycology in dermatology, 6th article by Prof Hans-Jürgen Tietz, Director of the Institute of Fungal Diseases in Berlin, Germany One hot-button word is still going round: Mutations. However, we are not talking of viruses. Also fungi develop in an evolutionary process. These may not be as
