Table 3.

Prevalence of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in asymptomatic outpatients in main published series

Ref.	No. of patients	No. of paracenteses	Prevalence of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
Jeffries et al[5]	29	118	0 (0%)
Evans et al[8]	427	427	15 (3.5%)
Romney et al[9]	67	270	0 (0%)
Castellote et al[10]	40	204	1 (0.5%)
Present study	355	976	1.2