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Available online /content/12/6/195 Commentary A role for prophylactic antibiotics in necrotizing pancreatitis? Why we may never know the answer … Jan J De Waele Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium Corresponding author: Jan J De Waele, jan.dewaele@ugent.be See related research by Fritz et al., /content/12/6/R141 Published: 2 December 2008 Critical Care 2008, 12:195 (doi:10.1186/cc7122) This article is online at /content/12/6/195 ? 2008 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract The originality of this study lies in the ‘early