The start of 2022 saw Aculabs roll out several new features to our online web portal, including Email Reporting for Result Notification and improved logic used in our Exception Test Flagging feature. The purpose of such functionality is to continue expanding the ways Aculabs communicates with your staff while tackling patient care. Such features
Aculabs will be offering QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus in-house as of April 6, 2022; the test provides highly accurate and reproducible results, single-step testing, and innovative CD8 T cell technology that provides a more comprehensive view of the immune response to TB infection. Letter from the Director: QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus testing offers accuracy in health
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). A person infected with MTB might end up with TB disease with clinical, radiographic, and microbiological evidence of tuberculosis, or will have no clinical evidence of TB disease and would be considered latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI); however, about 10% with LTBI will progress or