Bacteriologic Studies on the Bile

This report represents a bacteriological investigation of the biliary tract disease correlated to clinical data and their pathologic findings at the Ewha Womans University Hospital from Oct. 1977 to May 1980. In this report, 50 cases of adbominal surgery for biliary tract diseases were examined with bacterial culture from the gall bladder bile and the common duct bile. The following results were obtained: 1. Of 50 cases in which the bile was cultured, 28 cases (56%) had positive bile culture. 2. The differences of the positive culture rate between calculous and non-calculous patients indicated no significant differences. (57.6% : 52.9%) 3. 92.9% of patients with choledocholithiasis had positive bile culture. Only 39.1% of patients with cholelithiasis had positive bile culture. 4. Higher positive culture rate obtained in common duct bile than gall bladder bile. (51.3% : 47.7%) 5. Isolated organisms were mainly so called enteric bacterias. 6. In sensitivity tests of isolated organisms to the antibiotics, organisms were highly sensitive to Kanamycin, Panimycin, Colimycin and Gentamicin.