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What is meant by the term kidney infection?

Updated: 10/31/2022
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Kidney infection is a general term used to describe infection of the kidney by bacteria, fungi, or viruses. The infecting microbe may have invaded the kidney from the urinary bladder or from the bloodstream.

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