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Contributors Study concept and design: HA-O, BG and EM. Acquisition of data: LI, NC, PER, CP, SB and JBN. Analysis and interpretation of data: LI, LL, HA-O. Drafting of the manuscript; critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: HA-O, LI, NC, PER, JT, BG and EM. Statistical analysis: HA-O and LI. Study supervision: HA-O. RA, CR, JBN and LL: designed and built the independent validation biobank.
Funding The validation cohort was obtained from study supported by the French Ministry of Health (PHRC).
Competing interests HA-O applied a patent on the measurement of ascitic fluid TREM-1 concentration for SBP diagnosis.
Ethics approval This study was approved by the ethical committee, Comité de Protection des Personnes (Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France) and verbal consent was obtained from all patients or their families. The requirement for written consent was waived by the institutional review board.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.