Bacteriological Study in Stomach-and Intestinal-operation

Abstract

1. No remarkable difference was found between Billroth I and II groups concering microorganisms detected in the gastric and duodenal or intestinal contents or from each suture layers of anastomosis after gastric resection in gastric cancer and ulcer.
2. As for the microorganisms cultured from contents at enterostomy and ileo-colostomy, they increased in kinds but decreased in quantity in the upper part of the intestine while they became fewer in kind in the lower part of the intestine and B. coli increased towards the lower part B. coli was cultured in all cases from the colic contents.
3. No intimate relation was found between the imperfect suture and the organisms detected at the anastomosis, although 3 cases of suture deficiency were seen in all of the cases and the imperfect suture might be caused by some other factors.