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. 2004 Sep;19(3):160–164. doi: 10.3904/kjim.2004.19.3.160

Table 3.

Clinical Outcome of ESBL-Producers and non-ESBL-Producers in Bacteremic Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis due to Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae

ESBL (n=15) Non-ESBL (n=30) p
Complete response at 72 hours after antimicrobial therapy 0 (0%) 16 (53.3%) <0.001
Treatment failure at 72 hours after antimicrobial therapy* 11 (73.3%) 5 (16.7%) <0.001
7-day mortality 5 (33.3%) 4 (13.3%) 0.135
30-day mortality 9 (60%) 7 (23.3%) 0.015

Data are numbers (%) of patients.

*

For patients with an absence of abatement or a deterioration in any of the clinical parameters associated with infection, such as fever and leukocytosis