Secondary Outcome: Microbiological Outcome Measures
bacteremia, postbiopsy, infections
INFECTION, CNS INFECTIONS, INFECTIONS
Except for 1 (CG), all bacteremia cases occurred within the first week after biopsy (pathogens: 80% Urine cultures were taken in 79.1% of the patients with a postbiopsy infection. In 32 of these urine cultures, a pathogen was isolated (60.4%). All early urine culture-proven infections were caused by Combining all blood- and/or urine culture–proven infections, 68.4% of the early postbiopsy culture-proven infections in the CG were caused by an intermediate (n = 4) or resistant (n = 9) GNB to ciprofloxacin. The prebiopsy rectal culture showed ciprofloxacin-resistant rectal flora in 84.6% of these patients. In the IG, 60.0% of the early culture-proven infections were caused by intermediate (n = 1) or resistant GNB (n = 2) to ciprofloxacin. These patients received ciprofloxacin prophylaxis because no ciprofloxacin-resistant bacteria were isolated in the prebiopsy rectal culture. Additional microbiological data are available in 