Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis with a history of nontuberculous Mycobacteriosis: a brief report of two cases

Intern Med. 2012;51(24):3435-7. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.8076. Epub 2012 Dec 15.

Abstract

We herein report two cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in patients with a history of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteriosis (PNTM). A 50-year-old man was diagnosed with MDR-TB five years after receiving treatment for pulmonary Mycobacterium kansasii infection. In the second patient, a 72-year-old woman, the diagnosis of PNTM was confirmed twice with two bronchial washings; she was diagnosed with MDR-TB 29 months after presenting with PNTM. It is highly possible that these two patients were already infected with tuberculosis (TB) at the time of PNTM diagnosis and acquired resistance to anti-TB drugs as a result of undergoing treatment for PNTM.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / complications*
  • Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / complications*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / complications*