The goal of TB elimination, less than 1 case per million people per year, can only be achieved through a concerted effort to detect and treat persons infected with TB, which includes those persons ...

CHICAGO — The use of a clinically validated flow cytometry test can assess type 1 and type 2 interferon activity in children with various pediatric inflammatory diseases to evaluate and monitor their ...

A TB blood test is a diagnostic test to detect the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This is the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB). These tests use a sample of blood to check for an immune ...

Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ/IFNG) is a dimerized soluble cytokine and the sole member of the type II interferon class. Originally referred to as macrophage-activating factor, IFN-γ is now recognized as ...

In adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), higher serum levels of interferon (IFN) alfa were linked to greater disease activity and autoantibody positivity; however, IFN-gamma showed no such link, and ...

We describe a case of life-threatening disseminated coccidioidomycosis in a previously healthy child. Like most patients with disseminated coccidioidomycosis, this child had no genomic evidence of any ...

Researchers have discovered that the interferon gamma receptor (IFNgR) signaling pathway is critical for susceptibility of glioblastoma tumors to killing by CAR T-cell immunotherapy. Researchers at ...

Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) is a cytokine that induces a series of immune responses against viruses and tumors. The pro-apoptotic, anti-tumor and anti-proliferative actions of the cells are activated ...