2017
DOI: 10.1590/s1678-9946201759020
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Abstract: Although tuberculosis (TB) is a curable disease, it continues to be one of the leading infections associated with death in the world. Extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB) occurs in approximately 10% of the total cases, presenting with lymph nodes, pleura, bone and genitourinary tract as the most common locations. Genitourinary tuberculosis, the second most common EPTB, is very difficult to diagnose unless there is a high index of suspicion. Isolated TB orchitis or prostatitis without clinical evidence of renal involvemen… Show more

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“…TB is usually considered a chronic disease with only a small percentage of infected individuals becoming clinically unwell (Eisenhut, ). Therefore, this rapid progression to disease in a relatively high proportion of animals can be considered unusual, although not unheard of, as sporadic fulminant human cases of renal TB leading to death by acute renal impairment have been reported (Adzic‐Vukicevic et al., ; Dissanayake, ; Isao et al., ; Pathan et al., ; Punia & Kumar, ; da Silva Junior, Brito, Rabelo, & Saboia, ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…TB is usually considered a chronic disease with only a small percentage of infected individuals becoming clinically unwell (Eisenhut, ). Therefore, this rapid progression to disease in a relatively high proportion of animals can be considered unusual, although not unheard of, as sporadic fulminant human cases of renal TB leading to death by acute renal impairment have been reported (Adzic‐Vukicevic et al., ; Dissanayake, ; Isao et al., ; Pathan et al., ; Punia & Kumar, ; da Silva Junior, Brito, Rabelo, & Saboia, ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unusually for companion animals, every clinically ill animal, those with lesions at PME as well as NVL hounds that were found to be culture positive, had renal infections. The kidney is not generally considered a so‐called “target organ” for mycobacterial infections in companion animals, however, it is the second most common site of extra‐pulmonary TB in humans, after lymph nodes (Adzic‐Vukicevic et al., ; Murray et al., ; O'Halloran & Gunn‐Moore, ; Pesciaroli et al., ; da Silva Junior et al., ). Renal tuberculous infections are often considered to be insidious and present with mild or even subclinical disease, a significant proportion of cases are incidental findings at PME (Guarino, Martínez‐Roig, Maiques‐Llacer, González‐Rivero, & Anguerri‐Feu, 2009; Isao et al., ; Punia & Kumar, ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%