Is infectious peritonitis contagious?

Infectious peritonitis usually refers to tuberculous peritonitis. Whether tuberculous peritonitis is infectious to people should be analyzed according to the specific situation.

Tuberculosis peritonitis is mostly caused by chronic peritoneal infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is mostly caused by the spread of other tuberculosis lesions in the body. If the patient pays attention to personal isolation measures and actively treats the disease, it is generally not infectious to people. However, if the patient is seriously ill, he often comes into close contact with others and does not pay attention to personal disease care, which may lead to a small amount of Mycobacterium tuberculosis entering others and causing infection.