Information till patienter och anh riga - p engelska Multiresistant bacteria in Swedish hospitals Information to patients and their families Bacterial infections can normally be treated with antibiotics, i.e. penicillins, cephalosporins, tetracyclines, aminoglycosides and others. Over the years many bacteria have developed mechanisms that protect them against the action of antibiotics. A few of these can no longer be treated with any antibiotics. Some of them them tend to spread in hospital environment and so far they are more of a problem in hospitals and institutions than in the general community. They are not equally common in all parts of the world.
Multiresistant bacteria are rare in hospitals in Sweden and other nordic countries.
We try hard to keep them out of our health care system. Our hospital infection control units spend a fair amount of time trying to prevent the spread of these bacteria in the hospital environment.