Stephanie Viguers
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Stephanie Viguers
Published: Jan. 15, 2018, 10:37 p.m.·
Tags:
HIV coinfection,
Pediatrics,
Diagnostics
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.
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Stephanie Viguers
Published: Dec. 15, 2016, 9:17 p.m.·
Tags:
Drug-resistant TB,
TB epidemiology
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.
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By
Stephanie Viguers
Published: Jan. 29, 2016, 3:34 p.m.·
Tags:
Drug-resistant TB
Partial lung resection in addition to antibiotic therapy improved treatment outcomes among patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, according to recent data.
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By
Stephanie Viguers
Published: Oct. 20, 2015, 9:42 p.m.·
Tags:
Diagnostics
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.
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