Natural history of ascitic fluid infection

Relation between spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and its variants as shown by the short-term, untreated natural history of the different conditions.

Adapted from McHutchison JG, Runyon BA. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. In: Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Infections, Surawicz CM, Owen RL (Eds), WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1994, p. 455.

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