Swiss experts have abandoned the over 100 year old tuberculin skin test favoring the use of interferon-a release assays such as QuantiFERON-TB Gold for screening patients for tuberculosis infection prior to initiating biological treatments (such as anti-tumor necrosis factor-a therapy). QFT is being comercialized by Australian biotechnology group Cellestis International.
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