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Cai, Tommaso http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7234-3526
Bartoletti, Riccardo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0302
Bonkat, Gernot http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7298-6468
Bruyère, Franck http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9281-9421
Köves, Béla http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6886-0750
Kulchavenya, Ekaterina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7965-2711
Medina-Polo, José http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3626-8669
Naber, Kurt http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1304-5403
Perepanova, Tamara http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2877-0029
Pilatz, Adrian http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8072-1841
Tandogdu, Zafer http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5309-3656
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Article History
Received: 29 October 2020
Accepted: 25 January 2021
First Online: 22 February 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare the following conflict of interests: all authors are members of the European Section of Infection in Urology (ESIU) of the European Association of Urology (EAU). The GPIU study is organised by the board of the European Section of Infections in Urology (ESIU) and endorsed by the EAU and the EAU Research Foundation (EAU RF). The study is performed in collaboration with the Asian Association of UTI and STI (AAUS), the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC), and the Interregional Association of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. The study platform is maintained by the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM), Germany and sponsored by Merian Iselin Foundation, Switzerland. Otherwise the authors did not receive support from any organisation for the submitted work. No funding was received to assist with the preparation of this manuscript.We thank all the GPIU Investigators who provided essential information (listed in Appendix).
: The study was approved by the leading ethics committee (Ethik Kommission am Fachbereich Medizin of the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Ethical vote: AZ.: 116/07). Local ethical approval and regulatory issues were responsibility of each study centre. We certify that the study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
: Participants data are imputed entirely anonymized. Informed consent was therefore waived by the ethical commission.