Assay Accurately Differentiates Patients with Latent TB from those with Active Disease, According to Report in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics One of the roadblocks to the eradication of ...
Gene expression experiments measure changes in RNA transcript levels to compare how genes are up- or down-regulated across ...
One of the roadblocks to the eradication of tuberculosis (TB) is the difficulty in identifying patients with latent TB infections (LTBI). Neither the tuberculin skin test (TST) nor interferon-gamma ...
Researchers in South Korea report that a new multiple-target, real-time reverse transcription-PCR (real-time RT-PCR) TaqMan assay targeting eight human immune markers can differentiate active ...
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a method which utilizes the mechanism of DNA replication to amplify a specific part of DNA. This involves the use of DNA polymerase, which makes new strands of DNA ...