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Pyelonephritis is a bacterial infection of one or both kidneys. Infection can spread up the urinary tract to the kidneys, or uncommonly the kidneys may become infected through bacteria in the bloodstream. Chills, fever, back pain, nausea, and vomiting can occur. Urine and sometimes blood and imaging tests are done if doctors suspect pyelonephritis.
A bacterial urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common kind of infection affecting the urinary tract. Urine is the fluid that is filtered out of the bloodstream by the kidneys.Urine contains salts and waste products, but it doesn't normally contain bacteria. Bacteria that infect only the urethra (the short tube that delivers urine from the bladder to the outside of the body) cause urethritis. 2  Bacteria can also cause a bladder infection, which is called cystitis. 3  Another, more serious, kind of UTI is infection of the kidney itself, known as pyelonephritis.