A microbiological profile of gallstones: cross sectional study from a tertiary hospital in south India.

Soman k c; mini palathingal narayanan; siddharth matad

Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2017

A microbiological profile of gallstones: cross sectional study from a tertiary hospital in south India.

Soman K C, Mini Palathingal Narayanan, Siddharth Matad

Abstract :

Cholelithiasis is one of the costliest diseases to treat following GERD. Gallstones are considered to be tomb of dead bacteria .numerous studies have been done to show the infective nature of the bile but we did this study to analyze the microbiological profile of gall stone. We conducted a cross sectional study of 100 cholelithiasis patients undergoing operative procedure at our department. microbiological analysis of gallstone was done for all patients under study after obtaining proper ethics committee permission. Results showed that gallstones are no more tombs of dead bacteria, with e coli as most common bacteria isolated.