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Thorax 2007;62:739-740 doi:10.1136/thx.2005.056952
  • Case Report

Fatal pulmonary Mycobacterium xenopi in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis receiving etanercept

  1. Nimrod Maimon1,
  2. James Brunton2,
  3. Adrienne K Chan2,
  4. Theodore K Marras3
  1. 1Division of Respirology, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  2. 2Division of Infectious Diseases, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  3. 3Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr Theodore K Marras
    Toronto Western Hospital, 7 East, Room 452, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2S8; ted.marras{at}utoronto.ca
  • Received 5 December 2005
  • Accepted 27 February 2006

Abstract

Mycobacterium xenopi is a water-related mycobacterium with low pathogenicity in humans. Little is known about the association between anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF)α and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections. The case history is presented of fatal M xenopi infection in a patient receiving anti-TNFα treatment.

Footnotes

  • NM is supported by the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, Toronto, Canada and SACTA-RASHI Foundation, Israel.

  • Competing interests: None.

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