We read with great interest the article by Tolosa-Ridao et al. published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine [1]. This study examined the prevalence of baseline asymptomatic bacteriuria among high-risk hematology patients and assessed whether untreated baseline asymptomatic bacteriuria progressed to bacteremia caused by the same organism. These findings suggest that routine antibiotic treatment for baseline asymptomatic bacteriuria may not be necessary in this population. We commend this prospective study for addressing an important issue in clinical practice, for which evidence remains relatively limited.
