Journal Article Flavobacterial peritonitis in patients treated by peritoneal dialysis Get access Z. Korzets, Z. Korzets 1Department of Nephrology Medical Laboratories, Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba and the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar M. C. Maayan, M. C. Maayan 2Department of Microbiology, Medical Laboratories, Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba and the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar J. Bernheim J. Bernheim 1Department of Nephrology Medical Laboratories, Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba and the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel Correspondence and offprint requests to: Prof. J. Bernheim, Head, Dept. of Nephrology, Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Volume 10, Issue 2, February 1995, Pages 280–283, https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/10.2.280 Published: 01 February 1995 Article history Received: 20 October 1994 Accepted: 02 November 1994 Published: 01 February 1995

We studied 143 men who underwent transrectal prostatic biopsies using the double-glove technique. No patient received any antimicrobial therapy before the procedure. Clean catch urine cultures were obtained at admission and two, four, and twenty-four hours, and two weeks after biopsy. Aerobic and anaerobic blood cultures were performed at admission, and at thirty minutes and four hours after the procedure. In addition, clinical parameters were monitored closely in the hospital for twenty-four hours after the biopsy. A total of 132 patients were considered evaluable. Temperatures of 37.6 degrees C or higher occurred in 3.8 percent of the patients. In no case was rigors recorded. In 4 of the patients studied (3%) post-biopsy urine cultures were infected with Escherichia coli. All post-biopsy blood cultures, both aerobic and anaerobic, were negative. Our data indicate that with the use of the double-glove technique, prophylactic administration of antibiotics is not necessary to prevent the infectious complications following transrectal biopsy of the prostate.