1. Infection Control Unit, St. Luke's Hospital, G’Mangia MSD08, Malta
2. National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
3. Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
4. Microbiology Laboratory, Hospital Charles Nicolle, Tunis, Tunisia
5. Infectious Disease Research and Infection Control Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
6. Pathology and Microbiology Department, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
7. Microbiology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Casablanca, Morocco
8. Microbiology Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus
9. Institute Pasteur, Alger, Algeria
10. Microbiology Laboratory, St. George University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon