The Role of Bacterial Culture in Cirrhosis

Cirrhosis and cydes are basically carrying around a bacterial culture medium with them at all times. They're like carrying a petri dish in the abdomen and it can get infected. And when it does, they're kind of immunosuppressed. So it's not going to manifest like it would in a normal host. That host medium probably gets a culture positive more than all the other cultures we said in ratio.