Co-infection with Pansensitive and Multidrug-Resistant Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Abstract

We report a case of a 23-year-old HIV-negative man with multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis that became evident while he was being treated for M. tuberculosis that was sensitive to all first-line drugs. This case should alert clinicians to consider co-infection as a possible cause of recrudescent disease.

Keywords

• Antimicrobial resistance
• tuberculosis
• Mycobacteria
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• spoligotyping
• dispatch