Table 2.

Bacteriology of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis

Organism	No. of Isolates (%) (N = 263)
Escherichia coli	121 (46)
Streptococcus and group D streptococci	80 (30)
Klebsiella pneumoniae	24 (9)
Other aerobic gram-negative bacilli	22 (8)
Anaerobes	2 (<1)
Other Staphylococus spp., diphtheroids	15 (6)

From Bhuva M, Ganger D, Jensen D. Am J Med 1994;97:169–175. Reprinted with permission of Elsevier.³⁸