Abstract:
This study was done to determine the
antibiogram and biologicai characieristics of
Methicillin resistant Staphylococclts aureus
(MRSA) clinical isolates, to detect the existence
of a multi-resistant strain conforming to an
epidemic MRSA strain.
Specimens received from some wards of the
Gneral Hospital Colombo, and other hospitals
in Colombo and from a few out patients, during
a fourteen month period, yielded sixty five
MRSA strains.
