Testing them at the two-year mark, they found that those children with the highest levels of a blood biomarker called interferon gamma had a 40-fold increase in the risk of developing active tuberculosis.
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Interferon
//ˌɪn.təˈfɪːˌɒn//
Synonyms for "interferon" (8 found)
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22 translations across 20 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- interferó noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 干擾素 noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Czech
1 entries- interferon noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Dutch
1 entries- interferon noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Esperanto
2 entries- interferono noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
- interferonoj noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Finnish
1 entries- interferoni noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
French
1 entries- interféron noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
German
1 entries- Interferon noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Hebrew
1 entries- אינטרפרון noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Hungarian
1 entries- interferon noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Italian
1 entries- interferone noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Japanese
1 entries- インターフェロン noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- înterferon noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Polish
1 entries- interferon noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Portuguese
2 entries- interferon noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
- interferão noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Romanian
1 entries- interferon noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Russian
1 entries- интерферо́н noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Spanish
1 entries- interferón noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Swedish
1 entries- interferon noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
Thai
1 entries- อินเตอร์ฟีรอน noun (any of a group of glycoproteins, that prevent viral replication in infected cells)
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