Table 2.

Number of episodes of peritonitis by causative organism^a,b

Organism	Mup	Mup+NaOCl
Gram-negative	17 (0.31)	8 (0.07)
	8 Pseudomonas	No Pseudomonas
		P < 0.001
Gram-positive	26 (0.47)	9 (0.08)
		P < 0.0001
Fungus	5 (0.09)	3 (0.03)
Culture-negative	15 (0.27)	10 (0.09)
		P < 0.003
Multiple organism	5 (0.09)	0 (0)
	1 with fungus
Total episodes	69	30
		P < 0.0001
Total patient years/pt-mo	55.7/668.8	117/1403.6

^aAnnualized rates of infection as episodes per total patient-years shown in parentheses.

^bStatistical analysis by χ² for *Mup versus Mup+NaOCl.