Children with HIV in Kenya whose urine samples tested positive for lipoarabinomannan, or LAM — a biomarker of tuberculosis — had a nearly fivefold increased risk for mortality compared with children with negative LAM results, according to recent data.

Recent data from a population-based, observational study in China revealed that patients were more likely to develop multidrug-resistant tuberculosis from person-to-person transmission than from inadequate treatment.

Partial lung resection in addition to antibiotic therapy improved treatment outcomes among patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, according to recent data.

SAN DIEGO — An assay using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy detected low concentrations of tuberculosis in early stages of infection, according to data presented at IDWeek 2015.