Alpha Biotech AB develops diagnostics for laboratory use for diagnosis of rickettsial infections in collaboration with ongoing research in the area and clinical operations in microbiology and clinical diagnostics.
Cooperation partners in the projects are the University of Uppsala, Linköping and Murdoch University (Australia) as well as the Dept of Clinical Microbiology, Akademiska sjukhuset Uppsala and Boeringer Ingelheim Svanova
Our financial partners in the projects comprises ALMI, Vinnova, the Regional Research Council in the Uppsala-Örebro region, Olle Engkvist Foundation and Uppsala University
Topic overview
- Update on Tick-borne Rickettsioses
- Rickettsioses.emerging diseases challenging old concepts
- http://www.cdc.gov/otherspottedfever/
Diagnostic overview
Recent publications
- Characterization of SFR in Ixodes ricinus
- R. helvetica in Ixodes ricinus
- Prevalence of Rickettsia, Anaplasma and Coxiella in Ixodes ricunus from 29 study areas in Sweden
- R. helvetica associated with perimyocarditis
- R. helvetica meningitis
- Coinfection with R. helvetica and HSV2 in meningitis
- R. felis-two cases with meningitis
- Seroprevalence of Rickettsia spp. infection among tick-bitten and blood donors
- Seroreactivity for SFR and co-infections among habitants in central and southern Sweden
- Bells pares and sudden deafness associated with R. helvetica infection