Insufficient sensitivity of reagent stri
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Veit Gülberg; Alexander L. Gerbes; Tilman Sauerbruch; Beate Appenrodt
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We read with interest the study of Nousbaum and colleagues, which reported a low sensitivity of the Multistix 8 reagent strip in the diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP). It is noteworthy that overall prevalence of SBP in this study was only 5.5%, significantly lower than in all pre