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Chapter 12 - Infections Involving the Kidney Directly

from Section 5 - Infectious Diseases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2023

By
Marjan Afrouzian  and
Stanley de Almeida Araujo
Edited by
Helen Liapis
Helen Liapis
Affiliation:
Ludwig Maximilian University, Nephrology Center, Munich, Adjunct Professor and Washington University St Louis, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Retired Professor
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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.

Keywords

TuberculosisHIVSARS-CoV-2hantavirusdengueschistosomestrypanosomesPlasmodium malariaeLeptospiraTreponema pallidum (syphilis)Cryptococcus
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Pediatric Nephropathology & Childhood Kidney Tumors , pp. 231 - 254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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