The infection prevention doctor: Two bacteria to keep an eye on when swimming in a pool

In the past month, several bathing facilities in Dalarna had to close after cases of so-called bathhouse feet were discovered.

And at the beginning of February, Oxelösund's swimming pool is closed for several weeks to replace seawater with regular tap water - as a result of the bacterium Mycobacterium marinum.

You can be affected by a lot in a swimming pool, but only two bacteria have caused different facilities to be closed.

- You could get mollusks, you could get warts, you could get a fungal infection if you have wounds.

But nothing affects you in this way like bathhouse feet or like Mycobacterium marinum does, says Signar Mäkitalo, infection control doctor at Region Sörmland.