Cervical cancer (cervical carcinoma) is the fourth most frequent cancer disease in women worldwide. The most important risk factor for cervical carcinoma is an infection with human papilloma viruses ...

Dengue fever is an infectious tropical disease and belongs to the haemorrhagic fevers. It is caused by an infection with the dengue virus (DENV). The clinical diagnosis of dengue is particularly ...

Naturally occurring antigens that are not perfectly suited for the use in diagnostic test systems, can be modified by means of genetic methods to obtain maximum effectiveness: The result is so-called  ...

The indirect immunofluorescence (IIFT) is still one of the standard techniques in autoimmune diagnostics. The evaluation of immunofluorescence images under the microscope, however, is time-consuming ...

Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is a severe encephalopathic autoimmune disease, which affects mainly young women with ovarian teratoma, but also women without tumours, men and children. First ...