Biological characteristics of methicillin resistant StaphyIococcus aureus strains isolated from hospitals in Colombo

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.