1. College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2. The University of Queensland, UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Herston, Queensland, Australia
3. King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
4. WHO Collaborating Centre for Infection Prevention and Control, and GCC Center for Infection Control, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
5. Pathology Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia
6. School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
7. Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK
8. Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK
9. Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
10. Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
11. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Department at Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital, Umm Al Quwain, UAE
12. College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, UAE
13. Clinical Microbiology Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
14. Medical Microbiology Department, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman
15. Samlaniya Medical Complex, Infectious Diseases Unit, Manama, Bahrain
16. Medical Laboratory Department, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Health Science Center, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait