Should we treat bacteremic prostatitis for 7 days?
(2020) Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America — Vol. 70, n° 2, p. 351 (2020)
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- Dear Editor, We would like to comment on the recent article by Yahav et al (1) that compared 7-day with 14-day treatment regimens for gram-negative bacteremia. Shorter antibiotic regimens are recommended whenever possible (2) despite the lack of high quality evidence supporting this practice, particularly for bacteremia. Although this study marks an important step forward by addressing this issue, we wonder whether its conclusion can be generalized to both women and men [...]
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De Greef, J., Doyen, L., Henrard, S., Elens, L., Vandercam, B., & Belkhir, L. (2020). Should we treat bacteremic prostatitis for 7 days? Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 70(2), 351. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz392 (Original work published 2020)