About the Authors
- Agron Plevneshi
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Affiliations Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Tomislav Svoboda
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Affiliation Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Irene Armstrong
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Affiliation City of Toronto Public Health Department, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Gregory J. Tyrrell
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Affiliations Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canadian National Centre for Streptococcus, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Anna Miranda
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Affiliation City of Toronto Public Health Department, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Karen Green
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Affiliations Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Donald Low
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Affiliations Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Allison McGeer
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* E-mail: amcgeer@mtsinai.on.ca
Affiliations Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- for the Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network
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Current address: Other members of the Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network are listed in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: IA GJT KAG DEL AM. Performed the experiments: AP AM KAG AM. Analyzed the data: AP AM AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS IA GJT. Wrote the paper: AP TS IA AM DEL.