Bacterial flora in hepatic encephalopathy in bilharzial and non-bilharzial patients.

In this work 25 of hepatic encephalopathy cases were studied. 15 cases were due to hepatic schistosomiasis and 9 were due to hepatic schistosomiasis and hepatitis B. virus and one due to hepatic schistosomiasis and drug toxicity of tarter emetic. E. coli was the causative organism in 67% of positive cases, bacteroids were the causative organism in about 33% of positive cases. Urinary tract infection is increased in this study as it was found in 32% of cases and the causative organism were E. coli in about 76% of cases.