High Genetic Diversity among Community-Associated Staphylococcus aureus in Europe: Results from a Multicenter Study

• Joana Rolo,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Maria Miragaia,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Agata Turlej-Rogacka,

  Affiliation National Medicines Institute, Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, Warsaw, Poland

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• Joanna Empel,

  Affiliation National Medicines Institute, Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, Warsaw, Poland

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• Ons Bouchami,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of the National Bone Marrow Transplantation Centre, Bab Saadoun, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Nuno A. Faria,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Ana Tavares,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Waleria Hryniewicz,

  Affiliation National Medicines Institute, Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, Warsaw, Poland

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• Ad C. Fluit,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Hermínia de Lencastre ,

  * E-mail: lencash@mail.rockefeller.edu

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• and the CONCORD Working Group

  ¶Members of the CONCORD working group can be found in the acknowledgments.

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