Background: Cancer, the accurate clinical diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is challenging due to frequent absence of the symptoms and signs which are non-specific. The laboratory diagnosis of SBP depends mainly on the ascetic fluid neutrophil count. Therefore, it is recommended to inoculate the ascitic fluid into blood culture but cultures are time consuming and have a limited value to urgently direct the initiation of specific effective antibiotic treatment.
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