Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a ubiquitous organism that infects one-third of the world's
population. In previous decades, access to organ transplantation was restricted to academic
medical centers in more developed, low tuberculosis (TB) incidence countries.
Globalization, changing immigration patterns, and the expansion of sophisticated medical
procedures to medium and high TB incidence countries have made tuberculosis an
increasingly important posttransplant infectious disease. Tuberculosis is now one of the …