Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: Preve
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John Carl Hoefs
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Article
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1990
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a serious problem in patients with cirrhotic ascites, with an incidence of 10% to 25% on hospital admission (1) and accounting for 5% to 30% of all infections in cirrhotic patients (2, 3), 19% of documented bacteremic episodes (4) and 60% to 75% of all "ser