1. Northern Ireland Public Health Laboratory, Department of Bacteriology, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2. School of Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Molecular Biosciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
3. Department of Immunology and Pathogenic Biology, Molecular Bacteriology Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes related to Diseases of Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China, Northern Ireland.
4. Department of Microbiology, Craigavon Area Hospital, Craigavon, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland.
5. Department of Microbiology,, Altnagelvin Hospital, Glenshane Road, Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland.