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Norwegian hospitals use forms of penicillin which simply do not work on patients from countries where antibiotics usage is more lax. Treating a patient from Spa
by hartror 15y ago
Norwegian hospitals use forms of penicillin which simply do not work on patients from countries where antibiotics usage is more lax. Treating a patient from Spain with the same penicillin which is used for Norwegian patients would not have any effect and kill the patient. This is _solely_ because poor discipline in drug usage leads to antibiotics-risistant bacteria.
Wait what? The efficacy of an antibiotic is depended on the bacterial strain not the patient.
The rest makes perfect sense however and I strongly agree.
- carbocation 15y agoDependent on the strain and its resistance profile. Staph aureus might be treated fine with some penicillins; or, it might have acquired methicillin resistance. Same staph aureus though, otherwise. On the other hand, yes, pseudomonas infection is quite different from staph infection. But that's not what GP is referring to.
- marvin 15y agoIt was implied that it was a tourist who acquired the infection in Spain, where the bacterial strains are often resistant to antibiotics due to lax treatment discipline.