Association of Salmonella Enteritis with Operations on the Stomach

Abstract

IN the past, diarrhea occurring in patients who have had definitive surgery for gastric or duodenal ulcer has usually been attributed to the nature of the operation, especially if a vagotomy was included in the procedure. That this is frequently not so is shown by the results of recent studies on some of these cases. During the past two years, 9 cases of enteric infection have been observed in patients who previously had been subjected to operations on the stomach. These operations included 3 subtotal gastrectomies, 1 posterior gastroenterostomy with vagotomy, 4 antral exclusions with vagotomy§ and 1 subtotal gastrectomy . . .