Dr Anthony Radford was a member of the CSIRO team that invented the QuantiFERON method for cellular immune based diagnostics. He later joined AMRAD in pharmaceutical research and was head of ...

4 Department of Infectious Diseases, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK 5 Department of Paediatrics and Neonatal Medicine, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK 6 Health Protection Agency, ...

A new test shows promising results for detecting latent tuberculosis infection in resource-limited settings. This is according to a study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal Clinical ...

A new test shows promising results for detecting latent tuberculosis infection in resource-limited settings. This is according to a study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal Clinical ...

Detecting latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is important, especially in high-risk populations including healthcare workers (HCWs). QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) is a new version of the ...

A cohort study evaluating a tuberculosis (TB) prevention program among patients who received biologic therapy found a low risk for incident infection. Pretreatment screening with QuantiFERON-TB (QFT) ...

1 Korea University Guro Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Rep. of (South Korea) 2 Inje University College of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, ...

Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is an illness that affects the lungs and is caused by a type of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. TB can spread when a person with the illness coughs, ...

aeDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Transplant Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany afLaboratory of Metabolic Liver Diseases, Department of General, ...

A cohort of 123 adult contacts was followed for 18‐24 months (86 completed the follow-up) to compare conversion and reversion rates based on two serial measures of QuantiFERON (QFT) and tuberculin ...

32 Infectious diseases Centre «Clinic for treatment of children with HIV/AIDS» National Specialized Children's Hospital 'OKHMATDYT', Kiev, Ukraine Correspondence to Dr Marc Tebruegge, Department of ...

Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination showed no efficacy in preventing sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection compared with placebo in adolescents, with similar rates of QuantiFERON-TB ...