The Global Prevalence of Infections in Urology (GPUI) Study: A Worldwide Surveillance Study in Urology Patients

Florian Wagenlehner; Zafer Tandogdu; Riccardo Bartoletti; Tommaso Cai; Mete Cek; Ekaterina Kulchavenya; Béla Köves; Kurt Naber; Tamara Perepanova; Peter Tenke; Björn Wullt; Florian Bogenhard; Truls Erik Bjerklund Johansen; GPIU Investigators

doi:10.1016/j.euf.2016.03.004

The Global Prevalence of Infections in Urology (GPUI) Study: A Worldwide Surveillance Study in Urology Patients

Eur Urol Focus. 2016 Oct;2(4):345-347. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2016.03.004. Epub 2016 Apr 1.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, Paediatric Urology and Andrology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. Electronic address: wagenlehner@aol.com.
² Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
³ Department of Experimental and Clinical medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
⁴ Department of Urology, Santa Chiara Regional Hospital, Trento, Italy.
⁵ Department of Urology, Trakya Medical School, Edirne, Turkey.
⁶ TB Research Institute, Novosibirsk, Russia.
⁷ Jahn Ferenc Dél-pesti Teaching Hospital, Budapest, Hungary.
⁸ Department of Urology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁹ S.R. Urology Institute, Moscow, Russia.
¹⁰ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
¹¹ Department of Bioinformatics, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Giessen, Germany.
¹² Department of Urology, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway.

PMID: 28723463
DOI: 10.1016/j.euf.2016.03.004

Abstract

The GPIU study is currently the only study registering health care-associated urogenital tract infections, especially in urology patients, in an ongoing surveillance protocol that can help to deliver data on adequate empirical antibiotic therapy in hospitalised urology patients according to guideline recommendations. The annual GPIU study will continue to be performed in November of each year under the URL http://gpiu.esiu.org/.