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Planning for the post-antibiotic era — why we must avoid TRUS-guided biopsy sampling

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Health officials are warning that overuse of antibiotics and increasing antibiotic resistance mean that these drugs could soon become useless. Urologists have to take some responsibility as we continue to perform prostate biopsy sampling using a transrectal approach, which increases the possibility of bacterial infection.

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  1. Division of Cancer Surgery, University of Melbourne, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, 3000, Victoria, Australia

    Declan G. Murphy

  2. Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre, 180 Hoddle Street, 3121, Victoria, Australia

    Declan G. Murphy

  3. Department of Urology, Alfred Hospital, 55 Commercial Road, Melbourne, 3004, Victoria, Australia

    Jeremy P. Grummet

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Murphy, D., Grummet, J. Planning for the post-antibiotic era — why we must avoid TRUS-guided biopsy sampling. Nat Rev Urol 13, 559–560 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2016.176

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