Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis causes
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aditya Govindavarjhulla, M.B.B.S. [2]
Overview
Causes
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is a bacterial infection caused by a wide variety of microbes. It is caused usually by a single organism but it can be polymicrobial too. The most common organisms are
- Aerobic gram negative bacteria - E.coli [1]
- Aerobic gram positive bacteria - Streptococci (viridan's group is more common<ref name="pmid15698399">Cholongitas E, Papatheodoridis GV, Lahanas A, Xanthaki A, Kontou-Kastellanou C, Archimandritis AJ (2005). "Increasing frequency of Gram-positive bacteria in spontaneous bacterial peritonitis". Liver Int. 25 (1): 57–61. doi:10.1111/j.1478-3231.2004.0985.x. PMID 15698399. Unknown parameter
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References
- ↑ Reuken PA, Pletz MW, Baier M, Pfister W, Stallmach A, Bruns T (2012). "Emergence of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis due to enterococci - risk factors and outcome in a 12-year retrospective study". Aliment. Pharmacol. Ther. 35 (10): 1199–208. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2036.2012.05076.x. PMID 22449290. Unknown parameter
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