Hepatitis is an acute or chronic inflammation of the liver. One of the main causes of hepatitis is an infection with one of the five phylogenetically unrelated hepatitis viruses A, B, C, D, and E. While patients usually recover from a transient, acute HAV or HEV infection, over 325 million people worldwide live with a chronic hepatitis B and/or C infection, which can lead to liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. All contributions to positively change this burden are vital.

altona Diagnostics provides five AltoStar® ready-to-use test kits for the detection and quantification of DNA/RNA from different hepatitis viruses.