Urogenital tuberculosis is a form of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...

 that affects the urogenital system.

Epidemiology

It usually strikes young adults with tuberculosis in other places of the body as well. It is common in Asia, but less common in sub-Saharan Africa.

Symptoms

• Persistent cystitis
  Cystitis
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  , unresponsive to antibiotics.
• Urinary frequency
• Dysuria
  Dysuria
  In medicine, specifically urology, dysuria refers to painful urination.Difficult urination is also sometimes described as dysuria.It is one of a constellation of irritative bladder symptoms, which includes urinary frequency and haematuria....
  
  
• Loin discomfort
• Malaise and general symptoms of tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...
  
  

However, the infection arises insidiously, going long time without symptoms.

Other signs

• Pus cells and red cells in the urine, but no bacterial growth on routine bacterial culture
• Painless intermittent microscopic haematuria
• A painless, non-tender, irregular, and sometimes fluctuating mass on one side of the scrotum
  Scrotum
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Pathogenesis

The infection may affect the kidneys, ureter and bladder and may cause significant damage to each.

Complications

Urogenital tuberculosis may cause strictures of the ureter, which, however, may heal when infection is treated.