Response to Drs. Singh et al.

TO THE EDITOR: We are deeply thankful for the interest and comments made by Singh and colleagues. We believe there was a mistake in the reading and analysis of our study, because we did not conclude that bacterial infection in cirrhotics is not dependent on the etiology. Our findings state clearly that bacterial infections are more frequent in alcoholic cirrhotics than in nonalcoholics (p = 0.02).