• October 10, 2016

Scientific Update

• Morphological and biochemical features of Borrelia burgdorferi pleomorphic forms
• Pleomorphic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi induce distinct immune responses

• September 12, 2016

New at ArminLabs: The Borrelia miyamotoi EliSpot

In the past years, more and more Borrelia miyamotoi have been found in ticks (England, Germany, USA, amongst others) and related diseases have been documented at the same time.

• it is the human pathogen of relapsing fever
• an erythema migrans does typically not appear
  As of now, the analysis of the cellular activity against Borrelia miyamotoi is performed at ArminLabs by means of the certified EliSpot method.

• July 31, 2016

Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis

New: antibody differentiation between Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the bacterial pathogen of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (HGA), which was previously known as Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis (HGE), and Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the pathogen of Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis (HME)

• February 08, 2016

Extension of our EBV-diagnostics by the Anti-EA IgG (Early Antigen)

• additional detection of the Anti-EA IgG (Early Antigen) without additional costs when testing for EBV antibodies

• December 23, 2015

News for 2016 - Important Improvements

• introducing the new HSV 1/2 EliSpot
• HHV6 antibodies and varizella-zoster virus antibodies now available in our laboratory
• coxsackie virus antibodies: now differentiating the subtypes A7 & B1

• August 06, 2015

The New SeraSpot for Lyme

New retrospective study confirming the Lyme SeraSpot as a reliable and robust test system!
Replaces the Immunoblot at ArminLabs as it:

• uses the modern, sensitive MicroArray-technique
• offers a better standardisation and more controls in comparison to the immunoblot