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We report an adolescent with TIN and delayed association with uveitis (TINU syndrome), where SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was identified in kidney biopsy.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Case-diagnosis\/treatment<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A 12-year-old girl was assessed for a mild elevation of serum creatinine detected during the evaluation of systemic manifestations including asthenia, anorexia, abdominal pain, vomiting, and weight loss. Data of incomplete proximal tubular dysfunction (hypophosphatemia and hypouricemia with inappropriate urinary losses, low molecular weight proteinuria, and glucosuria) were also associated. Symptoms had initiated after a febrile respiratory infection with no known infectious cause. After 8\u00a0weeks, the patient tested positive in PCR for SARS-CoV-2 (Omicron variant). A subsequent percutaneous kidney biopsy revealed TIN and immunofluorescence staining with confocal microscopy detected the presence of SARS-CoV-2 protein S within the kidney interstitium. Steroid therapy was started with gradual tapering. Ten months after onset of\u00a0clinical manifestations, as serum creatinine remained slightly elevated and kidney ultrasound showed mild bilateral parenchymal cortical thinning, a second percutaneous kidney biopsy was performed, without demonstrating acute inflammation or chronic changes, but SARS-CoV-2 protein S within the kidney tissue was again detected. At that moment, simultaneous routine ophthalmological examination revealed an asymptomatic bilateral anterior uveitis.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We present a patient who was found to have SARS-CoV-2 in kidney tissue several weeks following onset of TINU syndrome. 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