A Patient of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Hepatitis C Cirrhosis Caused by : A Case Report.

Background: is an opportunistic pathogen that rarely causes clinical infections. Here, we first report a case of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in patients with hepatitis C cirrhosis caused by .

Case Presentation: A 71-year-old male patient was diagnosed with spontaneous bacteria peritonitis secondary to hepatitis C cirrhosis. The result of bacterial culture in ascites was positive, and the pathogenic bacteria was preliminarily identified as the genus by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry. After 16S rRNA sequencing analysis, it was determined to be the . Symptoms relieved after treatment with ceftazidime.

Conclusion: This case indicates that the clinical infections caused by should be brought to the forefront. Accurate and rapid bacterial identification results are highly beneficial to the diagnosis and therapeutic regime.