title: Rapid immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis in a woman receiving anti-TNF therapy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A 63-year-old German woman with a 24-year history of Crohn's disease and associated polyarthralgias presented with severe malaise, dyspnea, fever, night sweats, dry cough and an extensive right-sided pleural effusion. The patient had begun treatment with bi-weekly subcutaneous injections of adalimumab 5 weeks earlier.
  
  
  METHODS
  Physical examination, chest X-ray, transthoracic ultrasonography, pleural tap and drainage, bacterial and cytological analyses of pleural fluid, bronchoscopy, microscopy and bacteriological culture of pleural exudates and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, thoracic CT, thoracoscopy, histopathology of pleural biopsy, tuberculin skin test, nucleic acid amplification of mycobacterial RNA and DNA in the pleural fluid specimens and the parietal pleural biopsy, microscopy of sputum samples, ESAT-6-specific and CFP-10-specific interferon-gamma enzyme-linked immunospot assay on peripheral blood and pleural exudate mononuclear cells.
  
  
  METHODS
  Pulmonary and pleural tuberculosis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Cessation of adalimumab treatment. Initiation of quadruple antibiotic therapy with isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol and pyrazinamide. Prednisolone administered to reduce the pleural effusion.
authors.affiliation: Medical Clinic, and Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Germany.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lange
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hellmich
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ernst
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ehlers
mesh_terms: D000068879:Adalimumab; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000009:adverse effects*; D061067:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized; D018771:Arthralgia / Q000150:complications; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D007371:Interferon-gamma / Q000032:analysis; D008875:Middle Aged; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D014396:Tuberculosis, Pleural / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D061067:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized; D007371:Interferon-gamma; D000068879:Adalimumab