QIAGEN supports World TB Day with major innovations in the fight against latent tuberculosis

March 24, 2019 07:00 UTC

Developing new automation options for QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus – the modern blood-based test for TB detection – and new QFT Access for high burden, low-resource regions

HILDEN, Germany & GERMANTOWN, Maryland--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) recognized the annual World TB Day 2019 held on March 24 by highlighting its growing global commitment to preventive screening and treatment for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection, a widespread condition that can lead to active TB disease in vulnerable patients.

QIAGEN is investing in several areas regarding ease of use, throughput, screening efficiency and test availability for QuantiFERON-TB worldwide:

  • In late 2018 QIAGEN and DiaSorin launched a CE-marked read-out kit for QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus for use on DiaSorin’s widely used LIAISON platforms. The rollout of QFT-Plus as part of DiaSorin’s broad menu of tests on more than 7,000 LIAISON instruments in hospitals and laboratories around the world adds an efficient automated solution for TB screening programs. Availability of QFT-Plus read-out kits for use on LIAISON platforms is expected in 2019 in the United States and in 2020 in China.
  • QIAGEN has partnered with Hamilton Robotics and Tecan for single tube-handling solutions to offer high-efficiency automation of preanalytical processing steps.
  • In early 2019 QIAGEN announced plans to develop a novel and proprietary solution, QuantiFERON-TB Access (QFT® Access) that is dedicated and tailored to the needs of low-resource regions with a high disease burden of TB. QFT Access is designed to pair ultrasensitive digital detection of latent TB infection with a complete workflow created with a focus on cost efficiency and ease of use. QIAGEN is developing QFT Access in a new partnership with Ellume, an Australian developer of digitally enabled diagnostics. Clinical trials for QFT Access are planned to start in 2019, and commercialization is expected to begin in 2020.

Please find the full press release here

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Contacts

QIAGEN
Investor Relations
John Gilardi
+49 2103 29 11711
e-mail: ir@QIAGEN.com
+49 2103 29 11711

Public Relations
Thomas Theuringer
+49 2103 29 11826
Robert Reitze
+49 2103 29 11676
e-mail: pr@QIAGEN.com

 

Source: QIAGEN

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