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Adenovirus is a nonenveloped, double-stranded DNA virus that infects epithelial cells of various organs and causes a wide spectrum of diseases including bronchiolitis, pneumonia, pharyngoconjunctival fever, epidemic conjunctivitis and enteritis [1, 2]. In immunocompromised patients such as stem cell (SC) and solid organ transplant recipients, cancer patients who had chemotherapy or radiation, and HIV-infected individuals, systemic disease with lung, liver, and kidney involvement may develop. Amongst transplant patients, SC and intestinal recipients are at the highest risk [3–5]; children seem to be more commonly affected [6]. The virus may be transmitted with the allograft [7]. Type of illness and adenoviral serotype vary according to the underlying disease, patient age and affected organs [8]. Only 20 articles on adenovirus nephritis have been published, most cases developed in SC-and renal transplant (RT …