Abstract
Among infection following surgeries of the digestive organs, that caused by enterococci was clinically evaluated. And the drug resistance of enterococci was discussed.
Enterococci were liable to appear primarily in postoperative infections, and not to disappear easily. In case of major anastomotic leakage, an elongation of postoperative hospital stay and a higher postoperative mortality were observed in patients with enterococcal infection rather than in those with non-enterococcal infections. These facts might support the view that enterococci have a virulence.
Every enterococcus isolated at surgery, postoperative infection, and sepsis showed the same pattern in the resistance against cepem antibiotics and susceptibility (only for E. faecalis)to ABPC and PIPC. Enterococci inhabiting normally in the patients, accordingly, were thought to have been affected already by cephems preoperatively. And it was recognized that susceptibility to the drug did not change when general condition became serious.
