News and Publications
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The Austrian Toxoplasmosis Register
Publications January 15, 2015BACKGROUND: We aimed to determine the incidence of primary gestational infections with Toxoplasma gondii and congenital toxoplasmosis in Austria, a country with a nationwide prenatal serological… Read more -
Austrian Newborn Screening Program: A perspective of five decades
Publications November 13, 2014In 1966, the National Austrian Newborn Screening Program for inherited metabolic and endocrine disorders was initiated. In the last five decades, around four million babies… Read more -
MALDI Orbitrap mass spectrometry for fast and simplified analysis of novel street and designer drugs
Background: New strategies of rapid high-throughput analysis of street drugs without time-consuming sample preparations are necessary due to the massive variety of illicit substances available… Read more -
Diagnosis and prevalence of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) in Austrian children screened or not screened for CAH
Prevalence of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) is not exactly known in Austria, a number of patients with CAH might not be diagnosed, especially males. CAH is in… Read more -
Matrix-assisted laser desorption / ionization for simultaneous quantitation of (acyl-)carnitines and organic acids in dried blood spots
Screening for inborn errors of metabolism using mass spectrometry is part of nationwide newborn screening programs and involves the detection of disease relevant (acyl-)carnitines and… Read more -
Quantification of excess risk for diabetes for those born in times of hunger, in an entire population of a nation, across a century
Based on a unique dataset comprising all 325,000 Austrian patients that were under pharmaceutical treatment for diabetes during 2006 and 2007, we measured the excess… Read more