[Results of a comparative study of intestinal microflora in viral hepatitis patients]

The data obtained in the bacteriological study of fecal microflora in 27 patients with hepatitis A and 44 patients with hepatitis B in the dynamics of the disease are presented. The study has established the presence of essential changes in the composition of intestinal bacterial flora in viral hepatitis patients, especially in cases of hepatitis B, due to the suppression of the growth of normal symbionts, mainly anaerobes, and to the multiplication of opportunistic ones.