Viracor Eurofins Laboratories is a diagnostic laboratory specializing in infectious disease, immunology and allergy testing for immunocompromised and critical patients.
Viracor Eurofins works with medical professionals, transplant teams, reference labs and bio-pharmaceutical companies.
[2] Founded by Dr. Konstance Knox and Dr. Donald Carrigan in Milwaukee County in 2000, Viracor was among the first to commercially offer real-time quantitative PCR assays to diagnose patients with Adenovirus, BK virus and JC virus, among others.
Founded in 1983, IBT was the first laboratory to offer a test to definitively diagnose autoimmune causes of chronic hives and developed the first commercially available test to measure pneumococcal antibodies.
On 1 July 2014, Ampersand Capital Partners completed the sale of Viracor-IBT Laboratories to Eurofins Scientific for $255 million.