 In 1998, Pfyffer described abdominal lymphatic TB in a 56-year-old Swiss man with HIV infection who lived in Kenya.Tuberculosis caused by "M. canettii" appears to be an emerging disease in the Horn of Africa.A history of a stay to the region should induce the clinician to consider this organism promptly even if the clinical features of TB caused by "M. canettii" are not specific.