Is kidney tuberculosis contagious?

Kidney tuberculosis is infectious. Kidney tuberculosis in clinical most are infected by tuberculosis, under normal circumstances, patients first suffer from tuberculosis, with the further development of the disease, can produce kidney tuberculosis. Tuberculosis can be transmitted through the respiratory tract to the surrounding population, and simple kidney tuberculosis, the probability of infection is not large. Kidney tuberculosis can be excreted through urine tuberculosis bacilli, can be ureter, bladder and reproductive system tuberculosis bacilli spread, but through simple kidney tuberculosis transmission to other people around the possibility is relatively small, the so-called infection or mainly rely on the respiratory tract of the lungs for transmission.