We report the case of a 31-year-old immunocompetent woman residing in Senegal, with localized microscopy-proved pulmonary tuberculosis, complicated by macrophage activation syndrome and associated with viral hepatitis B, identified due to hepatic cytolysis and a bicytopenia.

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