Sepsis Following Abdominal Surgery in Schistosomal & Non-Schistosomal Cases & &Its Relation to The Antibiotic Sensitivity of the Causative Organisms

In the present work 300 cases hospitalized at the Medical Research Institute and General University Hospital were used for the study of post-operative sepsis. These cases were claaaified into two major groups namely: those underwent lower abdominal operations (158) and those operated on for upper abdominal surgery (142) . Each of these two groups included t number of schiatosomal cases which were 40 and 85 respec¬tively. The remaining cases (175) were nonschistosomal.Nasal and skin swabs as well as urine samples were collected from each case and used for the isolation of present organ-inns. In addition, samples from the hospital wards (operating Tables 8, gloves, aryngeal tubes, air, sink, beddings etc) were used for detection of nosocoraial organisms. The septic wounds developed post-opera lively in some of the cases were also sampled for detection of bacteriological organisms.