About the Authors

Mohammad Adil Khan

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Natalie Knox

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Akriti Prashar

Affiliation Cell and Systems Biology and Biological Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

David Alexander

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mena Abdel-Nour

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Carla Duncan

Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Patrick Tang

Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hajera Amatullah

Affiliation The Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Claudia C. Dos Santos

Affiliation The Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nathalie Tijet

Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Donald E. Low

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Christine Pourcel

Affiliation Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud, Paris, France

Gary Van Domselaar

Affiliation Cell and Systems Biology and Biological Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Mauricio Terebiznik

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Alexander W. Ensminger

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cyril Guyard

cyril.guyard@oahpp.ca

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAK CG. Performed the experiments: MAK AP DA MAN CD PT HA NT CP CG. Analyzed the data: MAK NK AP DA CCDS DEL CP GVD MT AWE CG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCDS DEL CP GVD MT AWE CG. Wrote the paper: MAK NK AWE CG.