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Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Treatment

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Due to inadequate defence mechanisms, cirrhotic patients with ascites have an increased susceptibility to infections, the most frequent and the most severe one being spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP). SBP diagnosis is based on testing of the ascitic fluid obtained by paracentesis. A polymorphonuclear cell count of more than 250 cells/mm3 of ascitic fluid is considered diagnostic and from cultures of ascitic fluid only one germ should be isolated. 60% of the SBP episodes are produced by gram negative enteric bacilli - E. coli and Klebsiella spp. being the most frequent isolated microorganisms.

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English

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Anti Infectives
Cefotaxime OGB

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J Gastrointest Liver Dis March 2006 Vol.15 No.1, 51-56

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