Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir has insisted it is “very rare” that a non-infected animal will be wrongly classified as ...

Elevated interferon alfa levels mark a subgroup of Sjögren disease, revealing immune changes years before diagnosis, and mice studies mirror these findings.

Roche has secured the CE Mark for its Elecsys Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) TB blood-based test designed to detect latent tuberculosis infection (TBI) in routine laborator ...

The Elecsys IGRA TB test expands global access to tuberculosis infection testing, advancing progress toward the World Health ...

USP’s Diane McCarthy on the emerging standards platform and opportunities for stakeholders to help shape standards evolution.

Introduction HIV cure remains one of the major unsolved global health challenges. The persistence of the HIV reservoir is the key barrier to achieving viral eradication. The acute HIV infection (AHI) ...

Mandatory interferon-gamma blood testing will be introduced for some Northern Ireland cattle herds from 29 June as part of Daera’s efforts to improve ...

When our body fights an infection, the immune system must quickly activate defenses and trigger a beneficial inflammatory response. But it is just as important to resolve that inflammation and return ...

Introduction In Hong Kong, tuberculin skin test (TST) with a 15 mm cut-off was used at 0 and 3 months for contact screening, but half of future tuberculosis cases might be missed. Follow-on interferon ...

Early interferon therapy reduces secondary myelofibrosis risk in young ET and PV patients. Cytoreductive drugs do not lower thrombotic event risk in young patients. Elevated white blood cell counts ...

Why does the COVID-19 virus make some people sicker than others? For years, scientists have looked to a critical piece of immune system machinery - known as the interferon pathway - for answers. There ...