[Clinico-microbiological diagnosis of non-clostridial anaerobic infections in diseases of the biliary tract and liver abscess].

The three-years experience of clinico-experimental examinations of 150 patients with various surgical diseases of bile ducts and abscesses of the liver is summed up. In 24 of them (16%) participation of non-sporulating anaerobes in the infection process was shown. The greatest etiological role of these pathogenic agents was found in purulent cholangitis and cholangitic abscesses of the liver. It was noted that the efficiency and reliability of microbiological diagnostics of biliary infection greatly depended on perfection of the methods used.