Papers of the Week

Human immunodeficiency virus/tuberculosis coinfections have amplified the multidrug-resistant tuberculosis pandemic in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis has become a major public health threat. There is a paucity of data on severe complications of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the context of human immunodeficiency virus coinfection despite the increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis/human immunodeficiency virus coinfection and the complexity of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment. This report describes a rare case of complicated multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive individual.