About the Authors

Davida S. Smyth

Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Linda K. McDougal

Affiliation Office of Antimicrobial Resistance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Frode W. Gran

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway

Anand Manoharan

Affiliation Department of Medicine Unit I and Infectious Diseases, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Mark C. Enright

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Jae-Hoon Song

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Herminia de Lencastre

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

D. Ashley Robinson

darobinson@microbio.umsmed.edu

Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DSS AR. Performed the experiments: DSS LKM AR. Analyzed the data: DSS AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DSS LKM FWG AM ME JHS HdL AR. Wrote the paper: DSS AR.