A significant percentage of patients with transrectal biopsy-related infections have positive blood cultures but negative urine cultures. A literature review and meta-analysis
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DOI: 10.1080/23744235.2018.1508882
Abstract: Abstract Background: Infectious complications after transrectal prostate biopsy are rare. Nevertheless, since these are frequent procedures, the burden of infectious complications is high. Considering the increasing antimicrobial resistance, microbiological confirmation is important to guide antimicrobial… read more here.
Keywords: patients transrectal; blood cultures; transrectal biopsy; blood ... See more keywords