Eckstein Diagnostics specializes in the development of diagnostics for infectious diseases in animals and humans. Based on the filed Patent Application on the identification of bacterial species and subspecies using lipids the diagnostic tests will resemble the usage of pathogen-specific lipids in indirect detection of pathogens of interest through a new type of serological tests. Furthermore, Eckstein Diagnostics is developing diagnostic techniques to detect directly pathogens from tissues and fluids through mass spectrometry. The major focus is on two bacterial and one eukaryotic pathogen involved in one animal and four human diseases: Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Johneâs disease in cattle and sheep; Crohnâs disease and ulcerative colitis in humans), Burkholderia pseudomallei (melioidosis in humans), and Plasmodium ssp. (malaria in humans). A Lipid-ELISA for Johneâs disease was designed and final testing for obtaining the license is in prog
