Table 5.

Prevalence of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in cirrhotic patients undergoing large volume paracentesis in outpatient clinic.

Reference	Number of patients	Number of paracenteses	Prevalence of PBE
Mohan and Venkataraman [1]	110	278	7 (2.5%)
Castellote et al. [10]	40	204	1 (0.5%)
Evans et al. [11]	427	427	15 (3.5%)
Cadranel et al. [12]	355	976	65 (1.2%)
Present study	148	854	24 (3.3%)