Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: a case report and literature review

Braz J Infect Dis. 2008 Oct;12(5):447-52. doi: 10.1590/s1413-86702008000500019.

Abstract

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is an emerging health problem that threatens tuberculosis (TB) control worldwide, since suitable treatment for this disease has not yet been found. We report a case of secondary pulmonary XDR-TB in a 54-year-old, HIV-negative male from Goiânia, Brazil. The patient had long-standing pulmonary tuberculosis (nine years) with extensive bilateral lung damage and had been treated with multiple antituberculosis drugs (self-administered) before XDR-TB diagnosis. The strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was resistant to R- rifampicin, H-isoniazid, E-ethambutol, Eto-ethionamide, Ofx-ofloxacin, and Am-amikacin. This patient died with multiple organ failure due to sepsis secondary to bacterial pneumonia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis / diagnosis*
  • Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis / drug therapy
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / drug effects
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / drug therapy

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents