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  • Chapter 12 - Infections Involving the Kidney Directly

  • from Section 5 - Infectious Diseases
  • Edited by Helen Liapis, Ludwig Maximilian University, Nephrology Center, Munich, Adjunct Professor and Washington University St Louis, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Retired Professor
  • Book:
    Pediatric Nephropathology & Childhood Kidney Tumors
    Published online:
    10 August 2023
    Print publication:
    09 March 2023, pp 231-254

  • Summary

    Many infections that may affect the kidney have decreased in Western countries but continue to be a serious public health issue in the tropics. This chapter describes exclusively the most common microorganisms that directly invade the kidney and/or elicit an immune response causing glomerulonephritis or interstitial nephritis. Chapters 5 and 10 examine the latter pathologies respectively. Opportunistic infections in immune compromised hosts are also discussed in Chapter 18, under transplant pathology. Clinical presentation, pathogenesis and pathology are presented, followed briefly by treatment options. The infections discussed include kidney tuberculosis, HIV, rare viruses (hantavirus, dengue virus), SARS-CoV-2 and parasites.