Practical experience with patients infected or colonized with a methicillin - resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Purpose: To present the range of diseases produced by a methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). To assess the efficacy of procedures likely to cure MRSA infections and possibly to eradicate colonization.

Methods: Clinical trial studying the course of MRSA infections or colonization of in-patients, treated at the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Teaching Hospital Na Bulovce, Prague, between 1 January 2004 and 31 August 2005.