Ghulam Mustafa Arain, Ghulam Mustafa Arain, Safdar Ali Malik, Shamin Jafri.
Incidence of Salmonella in Gall Bladder Disease.
Mother & Child Jan ;13(3):100-3.

Salmonella infection is common in tropics. It is responsible for gall bladder disease in significant number of cases. In western world, acute cholecystitis is occasionally caused sometimes by salmonella. However in tropics, the salmonella is most frequent microbe responsible for chronic cholecystitis. In a prospective study at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Lahore, 100 consecutive cholecystectitis were included in which gall bladder tissue, bile and bile stones were cultured for salmonella. The infection rate was found to be 7%, which is significantly higher than the figures reported from the west. This higher rate of salmonella infection demands for elective cholecystectomy even for silent cases of cholelithiasis and also calls for strict hygiene control in surgical wards.

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