New automation options highlighted for QuantiFERON^®-TB
Gold Plus at ECCMID 2019 to increase efficiency and improve ease of
adoption for modern gold standard latent TB test

HILDEN, Germany & GERMANTOWN, Md. & AMSTERDAM–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/search?q=%24QGEN&src=ctag” target=”_blank”gt;$QGENlt;/agt;–QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced
that its modern gold standard QuantiFERON^®-TB test for
detection of latent tuberculosis (TB) infections has surpassed 60
million tests administered, having impacted the lives of millions of
patients worldwide and supporting the global fight against this public
health issue.

QIAGEN is continuing to improve and innovate with new automation options
for the fourth-generation QuantiFERON^®-TB Gold Plus
(QFT^®-Plus) test which will continue to drive rapid
growth in the conversion of latent TB testing from the century-old
technology of tuberculin skin tests to QIAGEN’s modern, accurate and
efficient blood test.

The global fight against tuberculosis, the world’s most deadly
infectious disease, is a major focus at the 29th European Congress of
Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2019), taking place
April 13-16 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Numerous presentations will deal
with prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease, in its active
contagious stage or as a latent infection, in at-risk populations. Four
studies focusing specifically on applications of QFT-Plus will be
presented at ECCMID 2019.

“As the global community increasingly embraces latent TB screening and
treatment to prevent the active disease from spreading, QuantiFERON-TB
Gold Plus is the gold standard not only for accuracy but also for
cost-efficient, automated workflows. We are proud to achieve the
milestone of 60 million QuantiFERON-TB tests, but we are still in the
early days of converting from antiquated methods to modern diagnostics,”
said Peer M. Schatz, Chief Executive Officer of QIAGEN. “This is an
exciting time of innovation, commitment and progress toward the shared
goal of stopping the global epidemic of tuberculosis.”

QIAGEN continues to enhance the ease of use, efficiency and
accessibility of QuantiFERON-TB tests:

• A read-out kit for QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus, which was CE-IVD marked
  in 2018, is rolling out in Europe and other markets as part of
  DiaSorin’s broad menu of tests for its LIAISON chemiluminescent
  immunoassay platforms. This efficient automated solution for analysis
  of QFT-Plus is expected to be available in 2019 in the United States
  and in 2020 in China. DiaSorin has placed more than 7,000 LIAISON
  instruments in hospitals and laboratories around the world.
• QIAGEN is partnering with two leaders in liquid handling solutions to
  provide options for automated aliquoting of samples from the single
  tube option to the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus Tubes for analysis with
  the QFT-Plus assay, for those customers who choose to implement a
  single tube collection process. The collaborations integrate the
  Hamilton Robotics Microlab^® STAR™ automated liquid handling
  workstation into the QFT-Plus assay workflow, or the Tecan Fluent^® Laboratory
  Automation workstation to automate the manual step of aliquoting of
  samples from a single collection device such as Lithium Heparin blood
  collection tube into the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus workflow.
• In partnership with Ellume, a digital diagnostics developer, QIAGEN is
  developing QuantiFERON^®-TB Access (QFT^® Access)
  as a novel workflow dedicated to the needs of low-resource regions
  with a high disease burden of TB. The global community has an unmet
  need for a low complexity, highly accurate test for latent TB designed
  with a focus on cost efficiency and ease of use that brings the best
  in class QuantiFERON technology to these settings. Clinical trials for
  QFT Access are planned for this year, and commercialization is
  expected to begin in 2020.

QIAGEN at ECCMID 2019

Exhibition booth No. 1.20 at ECCMID 2019 will feature demonstrations of
QIAGEN’s Sample to Insight solutions for infectious diseases, including
QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus and the company’s QIAstat-Dx, NeuMoDx 288 and
96, and QIAsymphony automation systems. To learn more about QIAGEN’s
presence at ECCMID, please visit http://eccmid.qiagen.com
or follow the Twitter handle @QIAGEN
during the conference.

QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus combines a flexible new blood collection
workflow with innovative CD4/CD8 T cell technology to enable the most
comprehensive TB immune response detection available. Now marketed in
more than 75 countries, QFT-Plus has been adopted by many organizations
such as the International Organization for Migration and the
International Panel Physicians Association. More than 20 peer-reviewed
publications to date have supported the performance of QFT-Plus, and
studies underway in 22 countries involve more than 30,000 patients. For
more information, please visit www.quantiferon.com.

Tuberculosis is a contagious bacterial infection spread primarily by
coughing of patients with the active pulmonary form of the disease. In
2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, there were 10
million new cases of active TB worldwide and 1.6 million deaths from TB.
In latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), the bacterium infects a person
but produces no symptoms unless it progresses to the active disease. On
a global basis, approximately one out of four people are estimated to
have latent TB infection, and about 5-10% of those individuals, if
untreated, will progress to active tuberculosis at some point in their
lifetimes.

About QIAGEN

QIAGEN N.V., a Netherlands-based holding company, is the leading global
provider of Sample to Insight solutions that enable customers to gain
valuable molecular insights from samples containing the building blocks
of life. Our sample technologies isolate and process DNA, RNA and
proteins from blood, tissue and other materials. Assay technologies make
these biomolecules visible and ready for analysis. Bioinformatics
software and knowledge bases interpret data to report relevant,
actionable insights. Automation solutions tie these together in seamless
and cost-effective workflows. QIAGEN provides solutions to more than
500,000 customers around the world in Molecular Diagnostics (human
healthcare), Applied Testing (primarily forensics), Pharma (pharma and
biotech companies) and Academia (life sciences research). As of December
31, 2018, QIAGEN employed about 5,000 people in over 35 locations
worldwide. Further information can be found at http://www.qiagen.com.

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