“…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, ).…”